Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect sympathy from us. You look too healthy," bantered Cabinet colleagues when the Secretary of War complained, at Cabinet meeting last week, of a pain in his abdomen. By the next morning the pain was a stabbing torment. A cluster of doctors, including Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and Lieut.-Commander Joel T. Boone, the President's physician, had sent James William Good to have his appendix...
Work done. Last week the U. S. Senate...
When it became known that the basis of Fall's appeal would be alleged "forcing" of the verdict by Jury Foreman Thomas E. Norris, as exemplified by the Movietone juror story, newspapermen interviewed Mrs. Fall last week at El Paso, Tex. Elaborating on her Movietone revelation, she said: "The verdict was returned not out of the conviction of twelve men and women, but of only three, who forced the others to accede to their decision. . . . Daniel Weisbach told me that during the jury deliberation he paced the floor in agony of mind and heart, trying to stop his ears...
Jobs of the Week...
After midnight one night last week, three cars sped up to the gate of the high-walled U. S. Naval Base in Brooklyn, N. Y., where are stored the Atlantic fleet's supplies. Out leaped six men. A guard felt the tickly touch of revolver muzzles, swung open the gate. Into the wide Naval Depot yard swept the cars. The guard was forced to unlock the door of the eight-story main building. Then the raiders trussed him up, plastered his mouth with adhesive tape, locked him in the Depot detention...