Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamber President Painlevé had hardly finished his inaugural address, in which he appealed for self-discipline as an aid to him in his presidential capacity, than a first-class uproar broke out. The Government consented to listen to an interpellation on the sardine-packers' strike in Brittany, but the Right Opposition objected and showed their antipathy by banging their desk-lids and shouting. The Left Opposition tried to shout down their opponents across the Chamber and in the ear-splitting din which resulted, Chamber President Painlevé was seen to rise, a pained expression on his face...
...charge ex-Premier Georges Clemenceau with responsibility for the Brest-Litovsk Treaty (treaty of peace signed between Russia and Germany in 1918) and for "the death of several hundred thousands of soldiers." It was thought extremely unlikely that he could prove that Clemenceau actually did refuse military aid to the Bolsheviki, although Sadoul averred that documentary evidence existed...
...Scouts, Girl Scouts, students, and all other amateur astronomers, are asked to aid the University Observatory in studying Saturday's eclipse of the sun, in a statement issued yesterday...
...years ago, was built in Chicago the Temple-"Methodism's skyscraper church." On the ground floor is the First Methodist Episcopal Church: above are 20 floors of offices of which, according to a statement made by William W. Dixon, Secretary-Treasurer of the Chicago M. E. Church Aid Society, 81% have been rented...
...church-skyscraper was built by the Aid Society at a cost of $3,500,000 on property valued at $3,000,000, bequeathed many years ago to the Methodist Church. This Church aims at self-support and at making a profit, which is to be divided among other Methodist churches. "From first to last," explained the Secretary-Treasurer, "the erection of this building has been carried on according to strict business principles. It was financed by a mortgage, not by small bonds sold to church members. It pays taxes at the same rate as regular commercial buildings. It has been...