Word: upon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...riding on a float, speeches, made up the scheduled events. Unscheduled were the activities of a squad of Dry agents under a "Missouri Democrat" who operated through Ripon during the celebration. At the height of the party and before the eyes of Secretary Good and Governor Kohler, they descended upon a soft-drink place directly opposite Jubilee headquarters, found inside several Wisconsin legislators, eight barrels of beer. Incensed celebrants threatened public condemnation by the State Legislature of this harassment by U. S. agents...
After the Spanish War, Mr. Barlow obtained large tracts of land in what later became the heart of Havana. Their title rested upon a 400-year-old Spanish royal grant which bounded them "as far as a dog's bark can be heard." Cuban courts decided he had been despoiled of his property, but the Cuban Government refused to make redress and, vexed by his pestiferousness, expelled him from the island. Not only did Mr. Barlow appeal to the U. S. State Department for assistance, but he rowed with Secretary Kellogg whom he threatened to "bust on the nose...
From the burning centre of the earth a pillar of fire roared upward, burst through the crater's mouth, hurled itself against the satiny blackness of the sky. Huge volcanic missiles hissed through the air, making red wounds upon the face of the night. Scorching cinders curved outward in shimmering clouds and lava rushed over the volcano's jagged edges and started downward in an implacable, destroying stream. Vesuvius, terrible father of volcanoes, had unloosed his recurring wrath once more...
Another throne for the inveterate palace builder arrived last week from King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy. This throne, of solid walnut, is tastefully gilded, embellished with columns of liver-colored porphyry and allegorical figures of Justice & Power holding a large gilt crown. King Zog will sit upon the new throne in the new Summer Palace above Durazzo...
Methodist College. Gratefully, King Zog made a gift of 380 acres of land last week to Dr. Samuel Wesley, director of Methodist missions in Italy. Upon this land Methodist Wesley had offered to build a modern college to train Albanian teachers in U. S. Methodist methods of instruction. Funds for the faculty of the new college will come from famed Duke ("Bull Durham") University, North Carolina...