Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government is, for the most part, away from Washington. Last week, with plans nearly matured for the multilateral treaty signing which is to crown his regime, Secretary Kellogg announced definite progress on the long-tangled China problem. In Nanking, a tariff treaty was signed by the U. S., granting de facto recognition to the Nationalist regime of the Chinese Republic (see p.23). The Navy Department prepared to withdraw from Chinese waters some of the 56 U. S. warboats now there under command of Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol...
Last week General Adolfo de la Huerta, once for a brief time Provisional President of Mexico, now in bitter exile at Los Angeles, Calif., said: "I lament the passing of Obregon, because I would have liked to have had him live long enough to pay for his many sins...
Emile Moreau or Charles Rist of the Banque de France...
...find him, at 50, ready and able to oppose Benjamin Strong, scion of a long line of publicists and bankers. Fighting is in his blood. No Kentuckian was surprised, last week, when Gov. Flem D. Sampson made "Mel" Traylor a Colonel of the National Guard, named him an aide-de-camp on his personal staff. Chicago claims Banker Traylor, but the South hasn't given him up. After 17 years of hearing the mid-western twang, the drawl of Kentucky and Texas still lingers in his speech...
After the cable was read in the Hotel Carlton, Tilden cried: "I refute all charges. We will win the Davis Cup yet. I hereby apply for a job training American Davis Cup members for the gruelling matches ahead." Baron de Morpurgo, captain of the Italian team, rushed up to Tilden, said: "I'm sorry, Bill. This takes all the fun out of it." Some said the Baron grinned. But there was no doubt of the sincerity of Lacoste, who soon came to Tilden's room to express regrets...