Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gesturing thus patriotically, Pilgrim Nobile and his crew turned back toward Spitsbergen. Nearly two months later, they were still trying to reach land. The Nobile affair, chronologically...
...post of Police Commissioner, in hope of restoring public confidence in policemen. Conceivably a great lawyer and statesman, such as Charles Evans Hughes, might say, in speaking of the application of a police third degree to some young woman: "Every father of an American girl sees in the affair of Miss X- an example of police methods which might be applied to his own innocent daughter...
...Charles Evans Hughes but the great British Liberal, Sir John Simon, highest feed London barrister, veteran statesman, and Chairman of the Indian Statutory Commission, said: "Every father of an English girl sees in the affair of Miss Savidge an example of police methods which might be applied to his own innocent daughter...
...Schoolgirl of Sixteen." The affair of Miss Savidge arose when she was acquitted of a charge of improper conduct in Hyde Park with Sir Leo Chiozza Money, onetime Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George. The two constables who made the false arrest have been fined ?10 ($48), stand today in danger of prosecution for perjury, and would be aided in proving themselves honest men by statements subsequently taken down from Miss Savidge at Scotland Yard. She was hustled there by constables after her acquittal, and examined amid circumstances smacking of the third degree...
...giving Poland independence I wanted to leave Poland to her own devices. I asked myself whether I should handle the Polish Parliament as a prostitute, and tramp on it with my feet, or choose the other way of leaving it alone. Had I chosen the former method the unpleasant affair of May 1926 [Pilsudski's coup d'état] would never have occurred...