Word: months
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel John Haydock Carroll, an oldtime lobbyist who proved his professional competence by charming his investigators with stories, diverting their inquiry into amusing byways, by winning their praise for frankness. Lobbyist Carroll had been hired by the U. S. Sugar Association to go to Cuba, at $4,500 per month, to investigate rumors against President Machado which threatened U. S. intervention...
...report showed that since April i, 1929, there have been fewer arrests, fewer prosecutions, fewer stills and less malt liquor seized than during the corresponding period last year. Only the seizure of spirits increased in quantity. Also, importation of liquor from Canada, averaging around 500,000 gals, per month in the summer of 1928, was reported halved...
Nebraska. In Nebraska last month was born a proposal which, had it occurred in their State, would have set the Wisconsin politicians baying with wildest apprehension. The proposal was to form one gigantic State bank for Nebraska, of which every state bank, now independent, would become a branch linking up the chain. Attorney Thomas Stinson Allen, brother-in-law of the late William Jennings Bryan, representing unidentified Manhattan banking interests, advanced the proposal to the State Government to lift it out of its troubles over the State's Bank Guaranty Fund. To this fund State banks in Nebraska must contribute...
Early this month in Italy a royal decree announced that Milan's famed La Scala opera would henceforth be under government control, that a Fascist commissioner would dictate its programs, the selection of artists. Many there were in Italy and the U. S. who linked this news with the resignation last fall of Arturo Toscanini after nine years as La Scala director. He, it is said, foresaw the Fascist rule. He, it is known, can brook no interference with a musical enterprise under his direction...
...Square Garden. There were 5,000 animals of all sizes, shapes, means of locomotion. There was a sombre Mongolian dromedary, an Indian baby elephant, ocelot (beast), a toucan (bird), a guppie (fish). Professor George Yoeger of Brooklyn took Trixie, his dancing, boxing dog. From New Jersey went Buster, 18-month-old chimpanzee who drinks Coca-Cola, hugs his mistress. Mme. Frieda Hempel. famed prima donna, wandered among the exhibits, her maid following with Master Toby, the Hempel pomeranian who has crossed the Atlantic twelve times, who once flew from London to Paris to visit his veterinarian. Louis Ruhe, famed Manhattan...