Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baton Rouge. The first week's session of the American Institute of Co operation, meeting at the Louisiana capi tal, produced a super-cooperative organization?The National Chamber of Agricultural Cooperatives. Its purpose: To join together all farm cooperatives. Its new president : Christopher Otto Moser of Dallas, head of American Cotton Growers Exchange...
...four years in city hall represent the Silly Season in American city government...
...More commodious, more comfortable than the rest were the rainproof, U. S. wall tents. Lent by the U. S. Army, some had boarded floors, ventilators. "American millionaires," sneered other scouts...
...hemlock, last week, for British officers to stomach what was shouted to cheering, pacifistic socialists by War Minister Tom Shaw. "A few more years!" came the bullfrog bellow, "A few more years of Tory [Conservative] misrule and Great Britain would lose India just as surely as she lost the American states! Labor is changing all that. Take Egypt, for example! I say and I know that The Labor government is going to give independence to Egypt on terms that will establish happy relations between both countries and will make our communications with India, safe for all time!" Later...
...Queen Marie during her visit to the United States forgot to mention that she never paid her motoring bill. In America the Queen's photographs were used to boost toilet creams and perfumes. Even her private diary was taken from a drawer in a dressing table by an American dancing girl and published...