Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twenty-seven years ago a young Manhattan lawyer named George Hiram Mann, who had been a U. S. Senate page, an Annapolis midshipman, a Coast Guardsman, thought he saw a chance to make some easy money. From 1878 to 1882 U. S. Navy yard workers had been upped each summer from an eight-hour to a ten-hour day, promised overtime pay, which they did not receive. After a quarter-century of fruitless litigation 1,377 workers got the U. S. Court of Claims to notify Congress that their claims amounting to $322,000 were valid. Thereupon Hiram Mann prepared...
From the stair pillars frown two enormous busts composed of seven kinds of marble and believed to represent unidentified Arabian characters. Another treasure is the largest piece of Dresden pottery in the world. Dazzling curtains from Baghdad, authentic 18th Century French and Turkish furniture, and a display of solid silver plate bought by Sir Samuel's grandfather a century ago adorn a ménage which the Hoares find cozy...
...help North Americans, and especially Albertans, embrace Social Credit, Canterbury's tall Dean will make a seven-week whirlwind U. S.-Canadian speaking tour, then whisk home to snug England...
...shootings in the chamber were not the only sad incidents in Mexico last week. As secretly as possible trainloads of Federal troops were hustled north to Sonora. Rumors persisted along the border that seven separate rebel armies were drilling in the dusty mountains, preparing to overthrow Governor Ramon Ramos, a stanch Calles adherent...
...After seven years of similar agitation the University yielded. And from that time until recent semesters planks graced all Cambridge walks in winter...