Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Transoceanic Ophthalmoscopy. The travelers far from home need not feel entirely at the mercy of foreign doctors, even if their ailment is something requiring microscopic examination. One Ernestino Dodd of Buenos Aires was in Berlin when his eyes went bad. A photograph of his retina was radioed 7,200 mi. to his own, trusted specialist, who within the hour called back advising his Patient Dodd to have an operation immediately...
...utmost significance was the comment of Britain's most British news organ. After warmly praising the Prime Minister for "sweeping away old resentments" between Britain and the U. S. the London Times went on to explain: "The idea of a Labor Prime Minister makes an irresistible appeal to the 'log cabin to the White House' sentiment of the Americans. He is not regarded with the wary distrust with which the American public regards British diplomatists and statesmen of what is called the old school...
...tell President Gaston Doumergue of his inability to form a cabinet of the "left." The Socialist party had just refused their support, and without them he considered the game was up. En route to the presidential palace, however, M. Daladier was waylaid by excited friends, went instead to his own Radical-Socialist party headquarters. There it was announced that M. Briand, who had long since agreed to lend his support to a Daladier cabinet of the "left," would now get behind a strong push to form a Daladier cabinet of the "moderate centre," excluding the Socialists...
...prisons must be built in Nyland [recently renamed Usimaa], and in every other Finnish province!" he declared, went on to demand new asylums, more enforcement agents. But, after pledging himself to continue sternest measures, "Black Jalander" concluded...
...holding company for public utilities, commercial and industrial enterprises), the Public Utilities Consolidated Corp. (subsidiary operating utilities), the Foshay Building Corp. (real estate). The value of the three companies was estimated at $20,000,000. But their liabilities last week were put at $12,500,000 and they went into the hands of a receiver (Minneapolis Merchant-Banker Joseph Chapman...