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MONTANA: Four thousand five hundred acres of land in Fergus County were thrown open to ex-serv-ice men, by order of the U. S. Department of the Interior...
Owing to banditry in the interior, thousands of wealthy Chinese are fleeing to " Hong Kong, Shanghai and other cities situated in foreign concessions, where their life and liberty are safe...
Geographers, like the christeners of Pullman cars, are sometimes hard put to it to find appropriate names. The Department of the Interior, when it named one of its western Indian Reservations, thought that "Moqui" was a good Indian word and suitable enough for the tribe. But the tribe, with some reason, showed annoyance, for it transpired that "Moqui" means "Dead Ones...
...ultimatum was delivered by the Communists, after a vote of lack of confidence by the reactionary German Nationals in the Minister of the Interior had been defeated by 248 to 79 votes. Herr Katz, Communist, then tried to get an explanatory note written into the records, but the Socialist President, Herr Leinert, would not permit this. Katz thereupon called the Socialists " greasy scoundrels," an appellation which incensed the Socialists, who called out: " Drag the dirty dog down from the platform...
...years later he emerged from the distinguished law firm of Winston, Payne, Strawn & Shaw, and at the call of Woodrow Wilson, became in rapid succession: General Counsel to the Emergency Fleet Corporation and to the Director General of Railroads, Chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, Secretary of the Interior...