Word: annexations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest proposals emanating from Italy were that Italy be allowed to annex Italian Fiume, in return for which Italy would allow Yugoslavia to annex the Slav section of the Free State. It is suggested that the administration of the ports of Fiume and Porto Barros shall be under a single mixed commission. It is understood that Signor Mussolini, Italian Premier, made urgent representations to M. Pashitch, Yugoslavian Premier, that the whole question of Fiume be settled once and for all, pointing out that the ports had been inactive since the end of the War and that all the commerce, which...
...York buildings which now use or have contracted to use oil-burners include the Equitable Building, Metropolitan Life Insurance Building, R. H. Macy & Co., Columbia University, John Wanamaker, Saks & Co., The New York Times Annex, Pershing Square Building, Hotel Claridge, Mount Sinai Hospital, Knickerbocker Building, Excelsior Savings Bank and a number of large apartment houses on Park Avenue and Riverside Drive...
Alan R. Crawford, Canadian, with three companions, all from the Vilhjalmur Stefansson expedition, have supposedly been in occupation of the island since 1921. Stefansson urges the Canadian and British Governments to annex Wrangel Land for a landing on a future Arctic airline. It is even suggested that the Japanese may move in if Canada does not acquire the island...
...Stanley Park the President spoke. He referred to the long unguarded border of the two countries as an example which Europe would do well to copy. " Our protection is in our fraternity," said he, " our armor is our faith. . . . The ancient bugaboo of the United States scheming to annex Canada disappeared from all our minds years and years ago. (Cheers.) . . . And if I may be so bold as to offer a word of advice to you, it would be this: ' Don't encourage any enterprise looking to Canada's annexation of the United States.' ... I entreat...
...including the numbers to be given by the Radcliffe Choral Society, follows: 1. Wedding March from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn 2. Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner 3. Fantasia, "La Gioconda" Ponchielli 4. Radcliffe Choral Society a. Just on the Other Side b. Cherry Ribbon c. The Annex Song 5. Ballet Suite, "Sylvia" Delibez 6. Intermezzo from "William Ratcliff" Mascagni 7. Soprano solo, "Un bel di" from "Madame Butterfly" (Mrs. Littlefield) Puccini 8. Roumanian Rhapsody Enesco 9. Selection, "Orange Blossoms" Herbert 10. Radcliffe Choral Society a. The Heathen Song b. China Lady c. Radcliffe Hymn 11. Waltz, "Artist...