Word: suite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Term from the card game called Casino. There are 11 points possible in this game (not counting "sweeps"). "Cards" (taking most tricks) counts 3 points. "Spades" (taking most of the suit) counts 1. To "give cards in spades" is, therefore, to give a 36% handicap...
...These bits of philosophy (collected in a volume called Ford Ideals) were reported as prompted, if not actually penned, by Mr. Ford. Latterly The Dearborn Independent suggested one idea to many a U. S. mind-anti-Semitism. Its columns carried Jewish articles which culminated in Aaron Sapiro's suit on Mr. Ford for $1,000,000. Immense publicity was thrust on the magazine. The vigor of its warcries caused its banishment from public libraries in Portland, Me., Paterson, N. J., St. Louis, Detroit, Toledo, Cincinnati. Chicago and Columbus, 0., forbid its newsboys to cry The Dearborn Independent...
...Supreme Court appointed its onetime member, Lawyer Charles Evans Hughes, to be Special Master in this suit, of which the ramifications affect Canada and U. S. foreign relations. Last week Special Master Hughes reported...
...suit be dismissed, he said, for Illinois had done nothing illegal. The water diversion permit, which expires at the end of 1929, was properly issued by the Secretary of War who had been properly empowered by Congress, with which lies ultimate authority over national domain and waterways. Should Illinois overstep her legal permit, let the Great Lakes States then sue again. Before the permit expires and necessitates a fight in Congress, let Chicago perfect its water-purification so that diversion can be dispensed with; or let weirs be built in the Niagara and St. Glair Rivers to compensate the lake...
Died. Anna B. von Moll, 91, who sewed the buttons on Abraham Lincoln's 1861 inaugural suit; in Chicago...