Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Common desires expressed by MM. Diaz, Moncada & Chamorre were, a) To retain some U. S. Marines to continue training the Nicaraguan national guard; b) to persuade the U. S. soon to build the long-planned interoceanic canal across Nicaragua, for which a treaty and $3,000,000 have already been furnished. One of the canal's original promoters, Judge Henry Douglas Pierce of Indianapolis, who first traversed the proposed route from west to east half a century ago, was in Nicaragua on one of many missions which have brought Nicaraguan leaders to favor the project. Judge Pierce, stricken with...
...Britten, unabashed, let it be known that he was pleased with the success of his effort, whether or not it resulted in a Congress-Commons conference. Whatever was said about him in the U. S., he had the satisfaction of seeing a great deal of approving comment in the British press. The worst British editors could find to say was that the Britten message was "not very important" because he is "well known as a Big Navy man." The Daily News (Liberal) remarked: "His real crime is that he has publicly administered to two governments bursting with etiquette a severe...
Bargain Basement. For many a year many a Boston housewife has set out from her suburban home shopping-round for "Filene's Basement." One of the earliest of the "bargain basements" now common in U. S. department stores, Filene's Basement added much to the fame of the Filene Store. Now to its basement Filene's has added a branch. Last week announcement was made that the William Filene's Sons Co. had purchased the business of the R. H. White Co., another long-established and prominent Boston department store. The R. H. White Co. will...
...young man as executives are considered (he is 46) Mr. Brown began his commercial career as an office boy with the New York Herald. In this capacity he earned $5 a week. Making the not un common progression from newspaper to secretarial work, he became secretary t6 Edward Marshall, the Herald's foreign correspondent. He was also secretary to William Dinwiddie, Herald war correspondent during the Spanish-American war. After a period of reporting, for the Washington Times, Mr. Brown got into organization work with public utilities...
...Significance. While other generals were tracing with blood and gore elaborate patterns of Napoleonic strategy, Grant defied all the rules, applied common sense, accomplished feats that Napoleon would proudly have claimed. All this can be gleaned from Woodward's interesting if arbitrary and cavalier account, but his great general is only too often submerged in the man, shiftless, gullible, pathetic...