Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...average private car. without special equipment, costs from $100,000 upwards. Its operation about the country by a non-railroad-owner requires payment of 25 full fares and as many Pullman surcharges. If the car is attached to a limited train. 25 extra-fares are added...
...protect Bouyer "at any hazard" on his journey to Eufaula for trial. The courtroom resembled an armed camp. Bouyer was convicted in ten min utes, sentenced to death, pleaded for a quick execution. Like a person of impor tance, he was then carried back to prison in a special train...
...discover why the Army cost so much President Hoover instructed Secretary of War Good to appoint a special commission for the General Staff. Specifically this commission was to "see what services and other outlays have become obsolete through advancement of science and war methods; and what development programs can well be spread over longer periods in view of the general world outlook." To his Shenandoah camp President Hoover took as week-end guests to ponder this problem Secretary Good, Assistant Secretaries Hurley and Davison, Chief of Staff Summerall. It was decided to let the General Staff instead of a commission...
...Trumbull, on his way to Canada, hastened back to Hartford by airplane to "straighten out this mess." As he stepped out of the plane, he asked: "What's the matter? As soon as I get out of the state, you boys start raising hell." Promptly he summoned a special session of the legislature to repass en masse all the legislation voided by the court...
...taken off these well-paying jobs. They are unionized, potent. Last week the Labor party's Ramsay MacDonald simply dared not throw too many shipyard constituents out of work. Therefore his speech contained this interesting passage: "I am glad to say that as a result of special arrangements suggested by the Admiralty it is hoped to secure