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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that she had admitted committing what is regarded by most law as an act involving moral turpitude, namely adultery. U. S. law further states that a person making such an admission shall be refused admission to the U. S. But Countess Cathcart remained. Reason: The adultery was committed in South Africa, where adultery is no crime...
...Young, was mayor of Salt Lake City when the U. S. Army descended upon that "nest of polygamous iniquity." To him by his wife Anne in 1862 was born a third child, a son named Reed. Ten years later Abe Smoot moved his Mormon household to Prove, 50 miles south of the Utah capital, there to start a woolen mill, to import the first beet sugar mill west of the Mississippi...
...contests. The winner of such a contest in Shreveport became his wife. He hustled through a three-year college course in seven months to jump headlong into state politics-''on the people's side." His campaigns were never dull and usually triumphant. The cities to the south were against him but in the northern reaches of the state he firmly grounded his political influence with the farmers and their...
...forthcoming to keep up the splurge. In March he called a special session of the Legislature to prepare new tax measures. Instead it prepared for his impeachment. Louisiana is, among other things, an oil state, with many a refinery for its own production and for shipments from Mexico and South America. Governor Long proposed a 5 cent tax upon every barrel of refined oil and gasoline. Unsentimental businessmen rose to curse him with the charge that he was inflicting the state with a manufacturers' tax which would drive industry out of Louisiana. The Long oil tax caused the impeachment...
...great enigma continued to be Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest private army in the world (TIME, July 2). He recently resigned as Nationalist War Minister, but last week some of his well-drilled divisions advanced south against the rebels under the Nationalist banner, while the Marshal with his main army moved north into Shantung; seemingly with intent to vanquish the Marshal Chang Tsung-chang who had just captured Chefoo?where the hair nets come from...