Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Longworth v. Gann. Without warning, armistice ceased in the war against Mrs. Edward Everett Gann as "official hostess" to her brother, Vice President Curtis (TIME, April 15, et seq.). This time the combat moved into front-line trenches as the lady of the Speaker of the House pitted herself against the lady of the President of the Senate...
...time-honored congressional cliche, there were grins on the Democratic side, snickers in the gallery. As everyone but the Senator recalled, the "people" who sent Senator Allen were not the voters of Kansas. They were General Counsel James Francis Burke of the Republican National Committee and Secretary of War James William Good, who requested Governor Clyde Reed of Kansas to give Mr. Allen the seat left vacant by Vice President Curtis. Norris Amendment. Without a roll call, the Senate adopted an amendment by Nebraska's Senator Norris designed to meet President Hoover's criticism that the debenture plan...
Since the War, U. S. financial physicians have gone to the far corners of the earth to stabilize the peso, sucre, zloty, pengo, gourde, piaster, cordoba. Some of them have stepped out of their college classrooms to put their fiscal theories into practice. Some have served only as expert diagnosticians, leaving behind a financial prescription for the country to cure itself. Others have remained at the bedside through long painful years, playing nurse as well as doctor...
...strike, like an army, moves on its stomach. Food became the crux of the textile strikes in North Carolina last week. Supplies for strikers were dwindling. Relief funds dribbled in slowly. A war of attrition moved into its sixth week...
Before he was 12, Chevalier painted dolls in a factory at Menilmontant, near Paris. He tried to be an acrobat but sprained his ankle. Later he made three francs an evening imitating famed singers in the Casino des Tourelles. He danced with Mistinguette at the Folies-Bergere, went to war, escaped from a German prison camp to get back to the Folies. Ernst Lubitsch (the Patriot) will direct him in an operetta...