Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon as Congress convenes, the Postmaster General will ask for special appropriations to build more powerful railway mail cars and armored trucks...
Extra-constitutional powers were accorded the Executive Council to levy a special assessment on the 3,000,000 members of the A. F. of L., in order to create a huge fund with which to fight company unions and shop representative schemes. A resolution announced...
...University, where he had taken refuge; and General Chen Kaimu, onetime Governor of Hupeh province was seized as he fled Wuchang in coolie garb. Though these captured commanders may well have expected that their heads would soon adorn two sharpened poles, they were merely imprisoned. As a mark of special consideration General Liu was supplied by his captors with opium to which he is addicted. Complacent, he dozed into sweet oblivion, careless of possible assassins...
Twenty-four judges worked to pick the championship and gold medal collections. Never before in the world's history had such a collection of expert philatelists assembled in one room. Prince Otto of Hungary, exiled in Spain, sent his collection. General F. Hegeman-Lindencrone of Copenhagen, 85, who specializes in Nordic stamps, stamps on the original envelopes, and the postal issues of Schleswig and Holstein, sent 2,000 of his rarest pieces. U. S. Postmaster General Harry S. New sent a government exhibition and put on sale (twelve days earlier than he had meant to) a new two-cent...
...Living Room and the Reading Room. The dancing will start at 9.30 o'clock and will last until 3 o'clock. The attendance has been limited to 800 people in order to avoid crowding. With the same purpose in view, the avoiding of congestion, the management has issued special dinner tickets with the approximate time for dining stamped on them. These tickets are issued in groups for each 20 minute interval between 11.40 o'clock and 1.20 o'clock. By this arrangement crowding within any one part of the building should be avoided...