Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the foreign debt-funding agreements arrived at during last summer and fall going through Congress, the World War Debt Funding Commission, headed by Secretary Mellon, met last week...
...Last summer Senator Ladd of North Dakota, one of the prominent insurgents and followers of LaFollette, suddenly died. The Governor of North Dakota decided 1) to call a special election for Senator next June, and 2) to appoint Gerald P. Nye, 33 years old, editor of the Non-Partisan League newspaper, to serve until the new Senator is elected (TIME...
...First Stage was the opening of negotiations last summer before the old anthracite wage contract expired at midnight Aug. 31. miners asked a 10% wage increase and the check-off (collection of union dues out of miners' pay envelopes by the operators), these demands the operators assumed a general attitude of negation. The negotiations from July 9 to Aug. 4 never reached even a bargaining stage. The deadlock was apparent and they were broken...
...that there came forth: a Paris wardrobe (all in petite sizes) impeccable to the finest pinpoint; skins of wild Colorado animals (to establish beyond peradventure her origin); riding habits (she is an expert horsewoman) ; perhaps a ravishing orange skin-tight swimming costume (it was seen many a time last summer in the tank of the Wardman Park Hotel, Washington...
...Angeles, length 654 ft., has a capacity of 2,500,000 cu. ft. The Shenandoah, wrecked last summer, was 680 ft. long; capacity...