Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Arthur Vining Davis, president of the Aluminum Co. of America, to be its chairman; whereupon Vice President Roy Arthur Hunt became president of the Aluminum Co. of America; and Edward K. Davis became president of Aluminium Limited, a new Canadian company which is buying all of the stock which the Aluminum Co. of America now owns in other companies carrying on operations in Canada, Norway and other countries...
...Sicily! Here the dagger flash is a little swifter, the blood a little hotter. At Palermo, Janey finds her olive-skinned prince. He invites her to a house-party at his ancient castle far up in the hills, whereupon Janey promptly despatches her male escorts on a cruise, and sets off for the hills with a guileless chaperon and two flappers. Arrived at the ramshackle castle, the prince mysteriously disappears. A servant explains that the most famous brigand in Sicily is in the district seeking that prince's blood. Janey interviews the bold bad bandit, arranges for the safe...
During the week General Baron Giichi Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan, called General Viscount Shirakawa into his Cabinet as War Minister, whereupon the pugnacious Viscount, a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, immediately despatched 15,000 additional troops to Shantung. Thus it appeared certain that the present Japanese occupation and intervention will continue for some time...
...violent did the gentleman become that a third bobby had to be called to subdue him, whereupon he implored: "For God's sake...
Unfortunately the Poles proceeded shortly to make peace with Soviet Russia, whereupon the whole might of the Red Army was thrown against Wrangel. Outnumbered, he was driven back-back & back upon Sevastapol. There he embarked his "White Knights" upon ships furnished by the Little Entente and withdrew his whole army to Constantinople...