Word: arming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President tested public opinion last week to see whether the country desires strong arm tactics against the anti-foreign land and oil laws of Mexico. The test consisted in a "leak" from the State Department to the effect that a very stiff note had been sent to the Calles government. When the note had been perused at Mexico City and had been declared no stiffer than usual by Foreign Secretary Saenz, the President had already received the benefit pf all that the newspapers could say on the subject of possible intervention.
Major de Bernardi landed his Macchi Fiat monoplane. He was strapped in with a separate loop for each arm and leg, the whole contrivance fastening with a buckle on his chest. He creased his wind-stiffened face into a smile for the photographers. In the timers' stand, beside a direct wire to Rome, Luigi Freddi, special correspondent of Dictator Mussolini's paper Popolo d'ltalia, sent his news. Before the race the Dictator had sent Major Bernardi a message, couched in his customary Napoleo-Caesarian rhetoric: "All Italy prays for your success". . . . Now Major de Bernardi made...
...next play, the Blue quarterback fell back to the 41-yard mark, and arched a beautiful drop-kick for the final score. This was superfluous, but the field goal sharpshooter all powerful in the days of Brickley and of plan man, had outdone the best efforts of arm...
...second place, nearly every one of the leaders who have advocated it in public admit that in private that they do not believe the time has yet come for the Americans to withdraw completely from the Islands. Their secret ideal is for complete independence under the protecting arm of the United States, with the right to call on us for unlimited funds to experiment with government and business, and with the expectation that in the event of danger of external aggression our might will protect them...
...Nuptial Rejoicings. Crown Prince Leopold, who has several times visited Stockholm unrecognized, by traveling third class and entering the apartment of Prince Carl by the back way, strolled about the city last week with Princess Astrid on his arm, to the vast delight of cheering Swedes. On the day before their wedding the couple met at 7 a.m. to begin with a brisk horseback ride a day which closed with a state dinner at the Palace and a gala in their honor at the Royal Opera...