Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perry Howard, Republican National Committeeman from Mississippi, whose dealings in cash and Federal patronage are now being exhumed by a Senate investigation. He has already been dropped as a special assistant to the U. S. Attorney-General...
...maker of Bristol, Pa., and president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Grundy is the man who has gone down to Washington about every tariff bill since the Dingley Bill of 1897. Who knows better than Mr. Grundy why the Pennsylvania delegation in the House caucused unanimously for a special session to deal with farm relief? and tariff...
...renouncing war, and when Soviet Russia led even the U. S. in ratifying it, the hypocrisy of the Soviets seemed proven up to the hilt. But Comrade Litvinov did not stop there. He has been deviling the statesmen of Rumania, Poland, Latvia and Esthonia ever since to sign a special protocol embracing the Kellogg pact, and specifically binding these nations and Soviet Russia to keep the peace of Eastern Europe...
Within 24 hours after the execution of José de Leon Toral, a dynamite bomb was exploded under the locomotive of the special train of Mexico's provisional president, Sefior Emilio Portes Gil (TIME, Dec. 10). The engine was derailed, one fireman was killed, and two coaches left the track. President Portes Gil descended unhurt from his salon car, walked forward to the locomotive, shrugged his broad shoulders and remarked: "The revolution star is in luck...
...Special Theory of Relativity. Einstein did not develop his conception of the world suddenly. He began by suspecting that nothing in the world was privileged, neither matter, nor motion, nor anything else. His suspicion led to the perception that there is one great physical law which describes everything...