Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commenced the King: "My relations with the foreign powers continue to be friendly. . . ." Ears strained to hear the bugaboo name of the Anglo-French Pact. But His Majesty in deep clear tones praised instead the Kellogg-Briand treaty renouncing war (TIME, Sept. 3), and omitted entirely to discuss that other Pact on which all thoughts were focused...
Briefly, the Minister of Posts & Telegraphs had been showing himself entirely too considerate of blackamoor trade unions. In vain Big White General Hertzog and his Nationalist Party had threatened, fumed. Mr. Madeley as a member of the Labor Party could not see his way clear to upholding the Nationalist postulate that blackamoors must be "kept in their place," economically, politically. The crisis was precipitated when Minister Madeley received a Negro deputation from the Industrial & Commercial Workers' Union, officially, at the Ministry of Posts & Telegraphs. That reception brought General Hertzog's demand for the Minister's resignation...
...Clear headed peasants glanced anxiously at the sinister smoke-plume which rolled upward from Etna's crater, and darkened the sky over Mascali...
...Philadelphia, excited about the election, 13,000 people swarmed onto a field where West Philadelphia High School was playing football against Central High. The score was 0 to 0 at the end of the first half; policemen tried to clear the field, but the people stayed. The football teams went away and finished their game the next day on another field...
...flaming red pigtails had caught him at it, and all her life she tried to reconcile that adventurous romantic spirit with the David, right hand man at the bank, David, beloved servant of the community, David, matter-of-course slave to his relatives. "Perhaps Davey will see his way clear to ..." send a bespectacled niece to finishing school, house a carping old-maid cousin, finance the whims and mistresses of a charming but debauched artist brother. Sophie married Davey out of her need for him, but the omnipresence of his relatives drove her to a garish New York apartment, complete...