Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this fashion, last fortnight, did Nicholas B. Jones. 87, Civil War veteran of Enid, Okla.. describe a Lincoln-Shields duel near Springfield, Ill. He said it took place in 1861, when Shields, later Civil War general and Senator from Illinois and Missouri, was state auditor. Letters deriding him appeared in the Springfield Journal. He accused Lincoln, who refused to retract. According to the accepted ver sion of the Lincoln-Shields affair, broadswords were chosen and a site on the Missouri shore some 50 miles away. But friends interceded, prevented the duel...
...Friedrich August III, deposed King of Saxony, and he with a solemn flourish proposed the principal toast: "Your Imperial Majesty's health and happiness." Obsequiously seated some distance from the head of the table was Herr von Berg, shrewd lawyer, who recovered from the German Republic and the State of Prussia over $3,000,000 for onetime Kaiser Wilhelm. Though correspondents were not admitted to any of these functions, most of them curbed their tempers well, took only the smallest revenge by ferreting out the fact that each guest received a handsomely engraved...
...second decree signed last week by Italy's short, bantamweight King, established the new supreme organ of state, the Fascist Grand Council (TIME, Oct. 1), by appointing 44 puissant Fascisti to sit as "the first two categories" of the Council. Il Duce was understood to be powerfully meditating on which Fascists he will tell His Majesty to appoint in the third category...
...great U. S. friend of small and backward peoples is Charles Richard Crane. Quite a trifle of his money went to help Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk found the new state of Czechoslovakia...
...Hoover received another visitor and another Cabinet rumor was dispelled. This caller was U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Dwight Whitney Morrow. He had come to Belle Isle after a rest cure at Nassau. The short, chipper Ambassador, oft-mentioned as possible Hoover Secretary of State, talked for two hours with the President-Elect. Then he all but told newsmen that Mr. Hoover preferred to keep him in Mexico, where the sedative Morrow influence has been worthy and unprecedented...