Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indemnification of the foreign prisoners held by bandits after the train hold-up near Tsinan, capital of Shantung province, in May. The prime factors in this plan are that for the first three days of imprisonment foreigners should receive $500 a day and for each subsequent day $100. Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, U. S. Minister to China, has, it is understood, been instrumental in curbing the financial appetites of his colleagues who favored much larger compensation. An agreement is expected between the members of the Diplomatic Corps and the Peking Government...
...coach. Mrs. Harding, who could not see the crowd well enough, mounted to the driver's seat. In a j pine grove the party reviewed a pageant of Indians and pioneers - men with their trousers tucked in high boots, soldiers of half a century ago, representations of John Jacob Astor, General Fremont, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill and others. To add to the local color there were log cabins, specially built for the occasion, and one correspondent recorded that the Indians employed were released from jail where they had been imprisoned for violating the Volstead Act. There the President delivered...
...Failures, an adaptation from H. R. Tenormand's tragedy, Les Rates. Jacob Ben Ami will have the lead...
...Latvian Government confiscated the St. Jacob Lutheran Church at Riga. It is destined to become the Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archbishop...
Vincent Richards, youthful expert from America, took the championship of London from S. M. Jacob of India in the finals of the Queen's Club matches. Score...