Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long ago, Director Primo Rivera, as he must now be called, withdrew several thousands of Spanish troops from Spanish Morocco. With the aid of the famed Moorish Chieftain, Raisuli, with whom Primo is now on excellent terms, a nonaggressive policy toward the Moorish rebels was adopted. The rebels were, however, quick to take advantage of the new order...
...millions of men who will no longer look to Italy and to Rome. For this reason, I offer this hypothesis: If the Vatican were to definitely renounce its temporal dreams-and it already seems to have started on this path-profane, lay Italy should furnish the Vatican with material aid; those material facilities for schools, churches, hospitals and so forth, which a lay power has at its command. For the development of Catholicism in the world, the increased millions of men who throughout the world look to Rome should be a matter of profit and pride...
...Responsibility for Corruption. "The revelation of these crimes was not the result of any action taken by the Executive. . . . When discovery was threatened, instead of aid and assistance from the Executive Branch there were hurried efforts to suppress testimony, to discourage witnesses, to spy upon investigators and finally, by trumped-up indictment, to frighten and deter them from the pursuit. . . . With what patience shall we greet the libelous suggestion that, after all, these are but incidents provoked by the demoralization attendant upon the Great War? . . . Shall we forget that no taint of dishonesty or corruption has ever attached...
...Black Cross Navigation and Trading Co. would be organized to assist the movement. A new city is to be laid out in Liberia, to be known as "the New Palestine." Cablegrams are to be sent to all the crowned heads of Europe and to the League of Nations, requesting aid in setting up the African Republic-the "United States of Africa," with Liberia and Abyssinia as bases. Secretary Hughes will be formally asked to request Great Britain to contribute Sierra Leone and the former German West Africa, and France to give the Ivory Coast...
...Next day Mr. Christo, who did not know or admit the possibility of psychic phenomena, resolved to call in the aid of a policeman. ... An officer and two constables were placed at his disposal. . . . After searching and inspecting every corner of the house, the lights were extinguished. Knocks on the front door were immediately heard downstairs. 'Do you hear that?' said Mr. Christo to the constables. 'Perfectly,' they said...