Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both France and Germany have come to the conclusion that the Coal War is going to be a long campaign, and the consolidation of their respective positions is their only thought. The French, firm in their determination to bring Germany to her knees, are reconciled to a policy of " wait and see." The Germans, equally determined to play their game, are strengthening their economic position...
Mustapha Kemal Pasha, returned to Angora from his long political campaign in the country districts, is now about to devote himself to the difficulties of swaying the National Assembly to his will. Although Mustapha is regarded as the savior of his country, at Angora there are many who seek his political downfall. He had this in view, no doubt, when in addressing the Assembly he said: " The coming year may just as well be one of war as one of peace...
...trade to be posing as admirals, generals, commanders, captains, and the like."-Lady Astor in a speech at Bristol. Lady Astor assured her audience that she was not out for the American brand of prohibition; all she wanted was the settlement of the question by local option. Her prohibition campaign is receiving important support from her husband's newspaper The Observer, published weekly at London...
...poor women." The Lord Chief Justice set aside the verdict of the jury awarding her ?100 damages, stating that no evidence had been presented showing that the accusations made by Dr. Sutherland were founded upon ill will. He summed up Dr. Stopes' birth control activities as "a monstrous campaign." The learned Judge's opinion is not likely to be popular in London, where Dr. Stopes is believed to have done considerable good in a spirit of broad-minded decency...
Three years ago William Z. Foster, notorious radical leader and chief organizer of the steel strike in 1919, predicted that in the near future strikes would be organized with all the scientific preparation of a military campaign, with a trained commissary department, shock troops, labor liberty loans, conscription of strikers' families, and all the material, financial equipment, and propaganda necessary to wage a modern industrial class war. His prediction has had a partial fulfilment in the school for strikers which operated three months prior to the dress and waist makers' strike in New York...