Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Legal authorities expressed the opinion that action cannot be taken against Kudlooktoo because the murder was committed "on the high seas" (in this case frozen into ice) in a portion of the world over which no court held jurisdiction at the time the murder was committed. None the less the U. S. State Department requested the Government of Denmark, to which Greenland now appertains, to "investigate" the slaying of the trusted aid of heroic Admiral Peary...
...many prophecies. Said he: "Everything points to a coming time of trial for the nation and the empire. It seems for every reason unlikely that our position as a world power will endure much longer. Much depends upon the friendliness of the United States on which we certainly cannot count, though of which we should not despair...
...present Japanese workmen cannot strike if employed by an enterprise in which the Mikado or his family has an interest, for such a strike would be interpreted not only as an affront to the Imperial House but as a defamation of the gods from whom the Mikado is descended. Hence, in disputes between capital and labor, the Emperor has gradually been drawn into the position-undesirable for a modern sovereign-of standing always with the full purse against the empty. Now, by liquidating its holdings, the Imperial House will resume the high impartiality expected of sovereigns...
...concerning the treatment of cancer is occupied by the still unsolved problem of the action of X-rays on normal and malignant the cells. Until this problem has been cleared up from the theoretical point of view I believe that the practical work of treating cancers by X-rays cannot be improved."-Robert Bierich of Hamburg...
Roused, Vice President Reichman of the Broadcast Listeners Association, Chicago, land-telegraphed Mr. Edison: "I positively cannot believe that a man of your intelligence could be so badly misinformed as to publicly condemn a tremendous, growing and healthy American industry...