Word: cases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegation to the five-power naval conference at London next January. To join Statesman Stimson, and Senators Reed and Robinson (of Arkansas), President Hoover appointed Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, Ambassadors Charles Gates Dawes (Britain), Hugh Gibson (Belgium), Dwight Whitney Morrow (Mexico). Likewise he smoothed out a case of hurt pride when he induced Rear-Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones, retired, to accompany the U. S. delegation to London as a "naval adviser." Admiral Jones, a full-fledged delegate to the fruitless conference of 1927 at Geneva, was represented as feeling he should go to the London parley...
...suspected them of pacifism, that at first some thought him mad. In the end. all France saw him as the incarnate Will to Victory. In 1917 the allied reverses and the fall of the Painleve Cabinet left President Raymond Poincare an alternative which Clemenceau described thus: "It was a case of Caillaux [pacifist] or myself. Had Poincare sent for Caillaux he would have had me arrested and made peace with Germany. He sent for me. I decided to have Caillaux arrested and to go on with...
...case the important thing is that General Martinez Anido remains Minister of Interior. More and more...
Savage enemies have tarred Anido with a vile nickname, "The Epileptic Pig," but he is no porkier than Primo and considerably less epileptic than several members of the Royal House. Just now he is behind a sensible project to alter the Constitution so that, in case of need, one of King Alfonso's healthy daughters can inherit the Crown. As everyone knows Crown Prince Alfonso is a haemophile,? Prince Jaime deaf and almost dumb, Princes Juan and Gonzalo "mentally under-developed...