Word: attachments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese Government attach the utmost importance to the maintenance of peace and order in Manchuria, and . . . possibly will be constrained to take appropriate and effective steps for the maintenance of peace and order in Manchuria...
...controversy was the Treasury Department v. the Navy Department. Secretary Mellon wrote a long, tart letter to Secretary Wilbur, reviewing the evidence and refusing to let any blame attach to Coast Guardsman Baylis. A like issue was joined by Navy men in defense of Lieut. Commander Jones. With the Treasury Department on the Paulding's side and with Jones unhappily dead, one of these arguments seemed academic, the other lamentable and futile...
When the date of the Creation was known, and history could be traced step by step along a well-charted and limited route for six thousand years, blind faith had definite pegs to which it could attach itself; now when professors carelessly juggle millions of years in a forty-minute lecture, and pass from electrons to infinity in a moment's time, only to discover in a few years that they are wrong, is it any wonder that faith has for many become a dead letter...
...Constitution, including a long quotation from George Washington's Farewell Address, condemning State-determinism as a threat to Federal sovereignty which he supposed the Civil War had ended forever, Candidate Willis floated over the fourth question on his initial impetus, omitting all economic and moral considerations that attach specifically to Prohibition. He said...
Dress. The impression which the trip was calculated to create became evident in a small White House news item of last month. All was being arranged even to the incidental of what the newspapermen should wear. Such of "The Boys" as expected to attach themselves to the President's official entourage, said Secretary Everett Sanders, had best make ready their cutaway coats and pin-striped morning trousers. Silk toppers, patent leather shoes, spats and a stick would be the correct accessories. Nowhere, the inference was, is a greater premium set upon costume than at a Pan-American Congress...