Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Massacre and plundering oh a large scale in Shanghai would be the natural consequence of the rout of Sun's armies, except for the prompt action of the British Government in sending troops just in time...
...with Nicaragua; and, indeed, no Nicaraguan dared to shoot a U. S. marine. Developments. Besides pouring 1,600 more marines into Nicaragua, last week, until a total of 3,300 were policing 630,000 Nicaraguans, the Coolidge Administration despatched thither six heavy De Havilland bombing planes. This action appeared to have been taken because the army of President Adolfo Diaz of Nicaragua (recognized by the U. S.-TIME, Jan. 17) has recently suffered several defeats and lost the second most important city in Nicaragua (Matagalpa) to the army of President Juan B. Sacasa of Nicaragua (recognized by Mexico...
...Pater, Pius XI, was reported last week from Rome to have excommunicated in the second or more serious degree** Leon Daudet (son of the famed author Alphonse Daudet) and Charles Maurras, both leading members of the French Royalist party. The excommunicated had stigmatized in their Paris newspaper, L'Action Francaise, all Republican Catholics-asserting that true Catholics are Royalists. The Pope not only excommunicated M. Daudet and M. Maurras, last week, but despatched an official rebuke to the French Cardinals Lucon (Rheims), Charost (Rennes), and Billot for upholding L'Action Francaise in various letters written by them...
...advice was good; they knew too that it would be followed, as a levee laborer follows a hand truck, lethargically. Theoretically, in the medical profession, a doctor is an enterprising individual; practically he is a follower of group thought. It takes strong shouting to start a professional group towards action. The doctors at Chicago spoke vigorously...
...these columns recently an article reprinted from the Harvard Crimson stated the views of Harvard and a small clique of eastern colleges regarding the action of the National Collegiate Association in withdrawing from membership on the American Olympic Committee because that organization had re-vented to its old custom of being dominated by and subservient...