Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King George a great crowd gathered last week before the wrought iron gates of Buckingham Palace on Operating Day. The worried crowd waited while automobiles drove up bearing physicians, surgeons, a radiologist, anaesthetists. Saluted by sentries were other automobiles containing the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Gloucester (just back from Canada, his polo-broken collarbone mended) and Prince George. Three of her sons had come to stay with Queen Mary during the operation...
...back into your memories!" doomed the cello. "Have you forgotten that it was at the moment of Verdun that America joined us in the War? ... I had then the formidable honor of being the head of the Government of France. I know whereof I speak. The enemy was in the suburbs of Verdun. Those were hours of anguish! No one then believed that victory would perch upon our flags...
...Back last week from St. Laurent de Maroni, France's penal colony in Guiana, came Commissioner Aldin Peyron, earnest head of the Salvation Army in France. In his little Paris office he addressed reporters...
...irregularities" by his predecessor, President Marcelo T. de Alvear (1922-28). Last week two new Argentine destroyers were ready for delivery in British shipyards. A transport with a crew of 800 officers and sailors had arrived at London docks, ready to take over the war boats and sail them back to Buenos Aires. Unfortunately President Irigoyen had neglected to send any money. As Horatius defied the armies of Clusium, British shipbuilders stood on the bridge of their destroyers and refused to surrender them to the Argentine Navy. Not only did the Argentine Navy have no money...
...newsdealers, whom he made his friends by every means at his command. Once, when they were crying for newspapers to sell during a Chicago strike, he ignored death threats, put his Tribunes on armed trucks, saw that every newsstand was supplied. In newsdealers' tiny offices, storerooms, back-alley loafing places, the name Max Annenberg became a great name. They call him "Max," he calls them by their first names. Once when a newsdealer died and left his business to a son who knew little about circulation, Max Annenberg stepped in, said he would be responsible for the efficiency...