Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conceived the idea of a Greater Serbia, and it was largely through his ingenuity and foresight that the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes came into existence. He is also responsible for getting the present Constitution through the National Assembly-no easy feat in view of the Creation opposition. He is now 75 years of age and is known as the " Grand Old Man of Serbia" or the " Father of the Constitution...
...object was to ask the Chinese Foreign Office to provide a police force for the railways. The conferring diplomats held such widely divergent views that no representations are to be made to the Chinese Government. The main difficulty was that of finance-which was bound up in the creation of a police force. It appears that the Chinese were willing to form such a body, providing the necessary funds were taken out of the railway revenues. As the railway companies have already defaulted on foreign debts, this scheme was not acceptable to the diplomatic representatives of Foreign Powers...
Archer M. Huntington, millionaire patron of the arts: " Popular vote (at New York City's Silver Jubilee) acclaimed me as one of a number of ' civic heroes' who have done most good for the greater city since its creation 25 years ago. Others similarly chosen were: Mrs. E. H. Harriman (whose private benefactions have been considerable), Nathan Straus and Mrs. Millicent Hearst (whose picture as a public benefactor can be viewed almost daily in her husband's press...
President of Columbia University: " Said I in a speech at a dinner of the Pilgrims in London: ' One of our greatest national failings is to identify the Fourth of July, 1776, with the date of the creation of the universe...
...creation of a world-wide Negro super-government to control and guide the destinies of the race ("just as the Pope and Catholic Church control their millions in every land") until such provisional administration would be able to proclaim to the world the recovery of the African motherland and the establishment of a Black Parliament to take its place among representative institutions of free and sovereign peoples...