Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the Royal Government will continue to deny Croatia-Dalmatia any such status de jure, but every year these two irrepressibly self-reliant provinces approach nearer to a de facto "dominion status." At present Croats and Dalmatians haughtily refuse to elect representatives of themselves in the Royal Parliament at Belgrade...
...news tips reached Manhattan, last week, that slender, weak-chinned King Alfonso XIII had asserted himself, at last, over Spain's paunchy and ruthless Dictator, General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. The Associated Press thought that soon Don Miguel "may be replaced"; and other news services carried similar stories...
...with reservations by governments and with enthusiasm by peoples, it has been killed by the appearance in increasing quantity of the details of the Anglo-French naval agreement and the notes which accompanied that. First--the secrecy attending the agreement; and latest--the unofficial official publication in the Echo de Paris on October 4 of a "summary, exact as possible" of the notes exchanged between the French and British governments in July. The results are these: the British government has assented to the French thesis that trained soldiers in reserve are not soldiers but "reservists" --not to be counted...
Professor Hazard will speak in French on "L'Evolution de la Poesie Francaise de 1815 a nos Jours...
...monotonous scientific pursuits of Microbe Hunters Paul de Kruif found sensationalism enough to titivate a large public-he demonstrated fascination in the perverse antics of microbes, drama in the stolid heroism of hunters. More of the same, Hunger Fighters is a trustworthy though ebullient account of certain other men of science, unappreciated breeders of sturdy grain, students of cattle diseases, discoverers of fashionable vitamins. If the author coyly attributes an exasperated scientist with a few cusswords, or jazzes his pages with other self-conscious slang, it is but in his honest endeavor to educate a sugar-coated public. He makes...