Word: taken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there was more work to do and Speaker Longworth allowed the House no dalliance. Promptly taken up and considered was the first of the appropriation bills, $283,189,000 for the Interior Department...
...Though the Edge has been taken off the Senate, we can look forward with joy to the Morrow...
...State's attorneys outlined their case against Gambler McManus. He had lost money to Rothstein at poker. Later he had taken a room at the Park Central Hotel, ordered whiskey, summoned Rothstein by telephone. Rothstein was seen staggering away from the room clutching his belly, was found at the servants' entrance of the hotel with a fatal bullet wound in his groin. He refused to name his assailant. An automatic pistol was picked up on the street under McManus' window, in the screen of which was torn a big hole...
...wire to the peace parley that China was yielding and Russia winning peace on her own terms, the U. S. note seemed at best an intrusion. His note in reply said: ". . . the [Stimson] declaration cannot but be considered unjustifiable pressure on the [Sino-Russian] negotiations, and cannot therefore be taken as a friendly act. . . . The Soviet Government cannot forbear expressing amazement that the Government of the U. S., which by its own will has no official relations with the Soviet, deems it possible to apply to it with advice and counsel...
Author Markovits writes from his own experience: he was taken prisoner by the Russians in 1915 and spent six years in Siberian prison camps. His book, which made little stir on its first publication in Transylvania, was taken up by Budapest critics, is now being published simultaneously in nine countries...