Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voter will receive a ballot containing the names, and only the names, of candidates approved by the Dictator in Council. If 51% of the electorate vote "yes," the entire slate will be declared elected, and Italy will have a 100% Fascist Chamber. Jokers in the law will almost certainly prevent a 51% vote of "no"; but in that remote contingency new elections would be held, and so ad infinitum until Fascismo triumphs. There are no local constituencies under this mock electoral procedure. In U. S. terms this would mean that the whole nation would vote to elect or reject...
...squalid little Near Eastern states know that Mr. Crane was their friend as American Commissioner on Mandates in Turkey (1919); and he was a most popular U. S. Minister to China (1920-21). Throughout the U. S. almost any dainty faucet, bathroom jigger or giant sewer valve is apt to bear the impress CRANE. Therefore it was matter of interest and concern to millions when, last week, the automobile of Charles Richard Crane was savagely fired upon by Arabian bandits, 60 miles south of Basra, Irak...
Last week, as Assassin Jose de Leon Toral sat in his cell awaiting the Supreme Court's decision on his appeal, his desolate wife and almost-widow gave birth...
...Captain Thomas Long, U. S. citizen, sailed around and named it. Just before the War, Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who recently announced his plans to drift across the Arctic in a tub-shaped boat (TIME, Jan. 14), was wrecked there. He walked across the ice to Siberia. Almost half his party died on Wrangel Island. In 1921, four men and Ada Blackjack, Eskimo sempstress, tried to live on the island. All but Miss Blackjack died. And dead, probably, are the Russian colonists sent there two years ago. A Russian relief ship, the Stavropol, tried to reach them this winter. Last...
Meyers Wilson ("K. O.") Christner, a little stolid and very solid, had knocked out 37 fisticuffers in 44 bouts. But he was almost unheard of east of Akron, Ohio, and west of the Mississippi River, until he demolished Knute Hansen and was signed up to fight Josef Paul Cukoschay ("Jack Sharkey") in Madison Square Garden last week...