Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week when the Italian troops at length arrived they were equipped with three squadrons of motor cars, bearing machine guns and 350 supply cars carrying rations and sufficient water for a month's campaign, since it was feared that the Senussites would poison their own wells rather than submit...
...flung empire. Antonio D. Pagua, Councilman-elect of Manila, was convicted yesterday and sentenced to four months' imprisonment on a charge of having insulted Leonard Wood, the present governor-general of the Philippines. The culprit's offence had consisted of referring to the general in a recent political campaign as an "autocrat" and a "usurper of Philippine autonomy",--terms not altogether indefensible in view of the general's well-known partiality for military methods...
...know that the work undertaken for this purpose is to a certain extent neutralized by the photographs and prints of members of the non-Christian tribes, which the newspapers and reviews are publishing from time to time, either for commercial purposes or in order to defeat the pro-independence campaign we are conducting in the United States...
...Hindenburg." If the vote of confidence should be defeated, the Chancellor would announce that President von Hindenburg believed that only a general election could terminate the three-cornered deadlock now existing between the various Reichstag factions. The Deputies pondered well whether they wished to lose their seats and campaign for them again. While they pondered, Foreign Minister Stresemann seized the occasion as the psychological moment to announce that he had obtained a few minor concessions from the Allies respecting the evacuation of the Rhineland. The effect was electrical and cleared the air for the Government considerably...
...Fifteen other laugh-provoking books he wrote* perforce, many of them as his wife failed. The public knew not his private life; demanded laughs; got them. Last week he let it be known that he would devote his fortune and his writing ability to forwarding a strenuous campaign for research in cancer or its prevention. He will probably act through the British Society for the Control of Cancer, which has branches in all the dominions...