Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven remaining defendants-four of them Northern Communists-the charge of first-degree murder was dropped and with it the shadow of the electric chair which juries shun. In Elizabethton, across the border in Tennessee, officials of the American Bemberg and Glanzatoff mills, where labor troubles began last spring simultaneous with the Carolina strikes, got the employes to cast anonymous ballots for or against another strike, to test the sentiment. They reported 2,883 votes against striking, 255 for. Observers could learn no connection between the Bemberg and Glanzatoff labor situation and the discovery last week that the acting President...
...Last spring arose a suspicion that two dry-voting Congressmen-Michaelson of Illinois and Morgan of Ohio-had brought liquor-laden baggage through the customs by official "courtesy of the port" (TIME, April 8). The two Representatives were cleared, but the Treasury Department felt that the "courtesy" privilege offered too temptatious an opportunity to homecoming Congressmen. A decree was issued abolishing both the "free entry" allowed Congressmen traveling on official business, and the "immediate attention" accorded to those returning from unofficial foreign sojourn...
...reappeared. In the course of getting elected and being the President, Mr. Hoover had many times promised to consolidate the enforcement and prosecuting arms of the Federal Prohibition forces in one Department of the Government. Now, six months after Inauguration, nothing has been done. Congress was too busy last spring. The nine-man Law Enforcement Commission under Lawyer George Woodward Wickersham has been too busy fact-finding. And the 'President had to admit that there is no one now in his administration either free or capable enough to effect the transfer of the Treasury's enforcement bureau...
Hitherto Harvard has received its heat supply from the plant of the Boston Elevated Company at the foot of Boylston Street and the Parkway. The University, however, has arranged to purchase this power station, and will gain possession of the property next spring...
...games played so far this season, against Colby and Boston University, the Granite State eleven has tossed 24 passes, of which 18 were completed. Six of the seven touchdowns run up against the two opposing teams were scored through the air. John Shea seems to be the main spring of the Wildcat passing attack. He is generally conceded to be one of the best passers in New England college ranks and it is hoped that his sharpshooting will give the Crimson secondaries a severe test. When Cagle and the Army come to Cambridge a week later, Harvard's anti-aircraft...