Word: chief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief reasons which make necessary the political independence of the Holy See are that the Catholic Church is a perfect society of men established by Christ Himself to carry out faithfully His laws and teachings...
With the name of the Smithsonian Institution to conjure guards and secretaries, a polite book agent worked his way to the presence of Chief Justice Taft. The Smithsonian Institution, related the book agent, was preparing a 12-volume survey of Science. The first edition was to be strictly limited to 875 copies. Only 875 world leaders, like Mr. Taft, would be permitted to purchase those sets. Each set would carry the owner's name. Mr. Taft would be aiding the Smithsonian Institution by buying a set. The price was only...
Margaret Sanger, chief U. S. prophetess of Birth Control, is now devoting herself to the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in Manhattan...
...General Council in Philadelphia. Twelve men voted for the women's emancipation, six voted against it. In St. Paul, Minn., next May the General Assembly must either ratify or veto this direct departure from Saint Paul who said "Let your women keep silence. ..." The Women. The chief Lydia Pankhursts of the Presbyterian church are two, Mrs. Fred Smith Bennett and Miss Margaret E. Hodge. Mrs. Bennett has long been a cheerful gracious opponent of "silly conventions" and she has long presided over the Presbyterian Council of Women. "Why," she asks, "do women think they must wash on Mondays...
...plant of the Cuneo Press, where Cosmopolitan is printed, numerous compositors set portions of an article that were "meaningless fragments" to them. Only Printer Cuneo and his chief assistant had been added to the circle of those who knew the truth. Under the lynx-eyes of private detectives the fragments were assembled and plates made. During the two weeks required to run off 1,850,000 copies of the magazine.* the detectives stood at their posts; at night the precious plates rested securely in a safe. Late one afternoon, five men with sawed-off shotguns robbed the Cuneo plant...