Word: two
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...selling smuggled diamonds" two Moscow jewelers met death. (The American Jewelers Association estimates that 50% of the diamonds sold in the U. S. have been smuggled...
...organizing a religious society called The Union of Those Who Praise His Name, which was in fact a counter-revolutionary association of priests and land-owners," 15 persons, including two one-time Tsarist army officers, were shot at Rostov in the Northern Caucasus...
...York Evening Post. When there was an especially good fire, murder, tempest or celebrity, he reported it. He got a "byline" over his stories: By Norman Klein. He was good at his job. He had worked on other papers-the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Daily News. For two years he had been War correspondent on the British front for the Chicago Daily News. He liked the life: he liked the excitement of beating a deadline, of turning in a good story in half the requisite amount of time; he liked meeting famed people, going queer places. Then, one day two...
...tower was the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis. Modelled after the Washington Monument, its 32 stories rise 447 ft. 3 in. above street level from a larger square base two stories in height. Last August when Secretary of War James William Good helped dedicate it, it was ecstatically dubbed the "Washington Monument of the Northwest...
...born of it. No Foshay enterprises were financed except by Foshay securities which were sold to employes or businessmen in districts which Foshay companies served. Causes of the Foshay failure seemed to be overexpansion and the depreciation of real estate holdings. The failure was chiefly remarkable for two things: it was the largest in the history of the Northwest; the man who failed had thrice made a fortune and might make a fourth...