Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four years ago, aged John C. Coolidge, slipperless, came down the stairs of his cottage at Plymouth Notch, Vermont, to swear in his son, Calvin, as 30th U. S. President. When President Coolidge's present term expires, he will have held supreme office for five years, seven months...
...should be pointed out that Governor Fuller need not choose between pardoning Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti and permitting their electrocution. He has also the authority to commute their sentences to life imprisonment or to a term of years. In this last case the seven years they have already served would, of course, be counted in their favor. The Governor may also make any discrimination that he desires between the two men?for instance it would be legally possible, though highly unlikely, for him to pardon one of the prisoners and make no intervention on behalf of the other. The only limit...
...After a seven-week convention at Cleveland, which cost more than $1,000,000 in expenses, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers last week voted to eliminate the office of "president" in their organization. Thereby they graciously threw President William B. Prenter out of the office he had held since Warren Sanford Stone's death on June 12, 1925. The Brotherhood was displeased with Mr. Prenter because during his incumbency the investments made by their banks and other financial agencies had depreciated in value by several millions of dollars. Their Florida boom town, Venice, had cost them too dearly...
...Rosenbaums (Rosenbaum Brothers, Rosenbaum Grain Co.) established their position as great grain storers by forming the Chicago Elevator Properties, Inc., in Chicago last week. That new company will own and operate seven grain elevators and operate two additional leased ones in the Chicago district, acquired from Armour Grain Corp. in settlement...
...Blood Ship. The captain is a ruthless desperado who murders and tortures those unfortunate enough to have been shanghaied aboard his Seven Seagoing vessel. When the crew finally rises in mutiny their leader is discovered to be the man whose wife and infant daughter the gory captain had stolen years ago. The daughter has grown up to be the one lovely thing aboard, so there is a hero...