Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July Trapper Courtois was brought back to Roberval by some fire rangers, so weak he could scarcely guide his canoe. In midwinter, he said, he had sent his boys ahead to their base camp with 50 pounds of flour, a moose flank and half a beaver while he made a side trip to lay a line of traps 100 miles away. The winter was bitter. Trapper Courtois was stormbound, nearly frozen to death. When he reached the base camp weeks later his two boys were gone. Frantically he searched for them. At last, nearly starved, he had been forced...
Last week, sufficiently recovered to pose for his picture, Michel Courtois was brought back to Roberval. A coroner's jury glanced perfunctorily at the skeleton of Réné Courtois, gave a verdict...
...conciliation he scored heavily as the Empire's first Ambassador in sullen Berlin directly after the War. His brain conceived the Locarno Pacts. When three other statesmen?Briand, Chamberlain, Stresemann?carried through his idea and each won a Nobel Peace Prize, he contentedly retired. Germany had been brought back into the comity of nations and he did not care who got the credit. In the same spirit Viscount d'Abernon recently con- sented to head the unofficial British Trade Mission to South America which was champagned at El Jockey Club last week. For him it is another adventure in conciliation...
...monumentally famed High Court Justice Higgins have consistently held that it is the duty of the State to apply compulsory arbitration. In trying to enforce these concepts a major issue has arisen: Shall the power of enforcement rest with the several Dominion states or with the central Dominion authority? Back in the early '903 the Australian states set up thei'r enforcement machinery. It functioned unhindered until the Dominion Arbitration Court Act was passed in 19154. Ever since there have been incessant conflicts. It is notorious that the powers of the Dominion Court under the Australian Constitution...
...complaints. On to Marseilles went she to argue the justice of their claims with her father. At length after a long and exhausting family scene, he relented, wrote a favorable reply to his subjects' demands. With Prince Louis' letter in her handbag, adopted daughter Charlotte hurried back to Monaco...