Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England; the Right Hon. Douglas McGarel, Baron Hailsham, Lord High Chancellor, and the Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister for the purposes therein mentioned and to declare that they should be designated under the style and title of Counselors of State...
...interview Painter Max was asked to state the secret of his success. Replied he with a twinkle: "Thrashings. In my youth my father thrashed me and later the critics. The best thing that ever happened to me was that I got so many hidings. Art must be the expression of personal experience...
...buffoon. Instead, the President sent 50 riflemen to protect the Teatro Lirico from possible Crom mobs. To the Crom's charge of "persecution," square-jawed Señor Fortes Gil returned a flat denial. Thereupon the Crom Congress ordered all Crom members* throughout Mexico to resign from any State or Federal post which they may hold...
...Pulitzer had identified himself so aggressively with local affairs that he was elected to the State Legislature. There he attacked the leaders of a graft ring, shot one of them in the leg after an altercation, escaped trial through the support of some unexpected friends, and made himself a champion of honest government...
Clarence Goecke, 12, raised and owned, until last week, the best steer in the U. S. Clarence called the steer Dick. When Dick was calved (July 27, 1927), Clarence paid his father, Fred Goecke of State Centre, Marshall County, Iowa, $55 for the gangling Hereford bull. Thereafter, every day Clarence fed Dick ground corn, cooked barley, oil meal, bran, molasses feed, clover hay. Clarence groomed Dick himself, made Dick's hair curly with a special comb, helped make him a steer...