Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inch square, sold by the League in booklets of 20 for $1, carried the legend: "Protest against Marine rule in Nicaragua." They were to Liberals what Christmas stickers are to Christians-a greeting and an expression of opinion. Fifteen hundred of them had been sold before Postmaster Kiely took action...
...Postmaster General Harry S. New, quick to approve the action of Postmaster Kiely, said: "It is a manifest absurdity to permit political agitators and advocates of various governmental policies to utilize the United States mails to propagandize the public. . . ." The All-American Anti-Imperialist League replied by printing several thousand new stickers bearing the same legend plus a cartoon of a huge boot, with...
Sadly leading the prancing bay steed walked Sergeant Secrett, personal attendant to Earl Haig for many a year, now clad in mufti, his breast ablaze with medals won in action, his eyes streaming tears which he did not brush away...
...could be truly said: "The people of Germany are debating with the people of France." Excerpts: Stresemann: "Before all else we Germans demand the evacuation of the Rhineland. . . . The Locarno agreement assures peace between Germany and France. Both nations obligate themselves through this agreement to forego all aggressive action against each other. Whosoever asks for more security than that doubts the pledged word and the signed treaty...
...similar innovation had been made the week before by the Rev. Dr. Peter Ainslie, pastor of the Christian Temple in Baltimore. The essential purpose which prompted Dr. Tucker and Dr. Ainslie to such action was well expressed by the former: "The first step in a unity of Christian peoples is for the Protestant sects to get together. There can be no real discussion of a union as long as Rome is forced to deal with numerous sects, all holding divergent beliefs...