Word: directe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chain postal card boom: "Link by link and vote by vote it will carry him to the White House!" And Mr. Borah commented: "Fruitless endeavor!" Meanwhile he is at work in Washington, apparently considering the possibilities of a visit to Russia, or a return home to fight for the direct primary in Idaho. Johnson. Where Mr. Harding is for the World Court, and Senator Borah takes the middle ground, Hiram Johnson leads the extreme opposition- " high priest of all the irreconcilables." Since Borah left the reactionaries to advocate a world court of his own, Johnson has been the undisputed leader...
Mustapha Kemal announced that hereafter statues of national heroes may be erected in Turkish cities. Immediate interest is aroused because this decision is in direct contravention of the teachings of the Koran, as interpreted in Turkey for the last 1,200 years. During that time sculpture which represented men or animals has been forbidden in all Mohammedan countries. In Turkey not even paintings or photographs have been permitted. Kemal's decision breaks with religion and ends a tradition...
...HAVEN CONN., March S. Preliminary results of the straw ballot, which is being held among Yale students by the Yale Daily News, show that the students uphold the French policy in the Ruhr, but disapprove both the American policy of isolation from foreign affairs, and any plan of direct American interference in the Ruhr
...American Fertilizer", are valuable in the study of specific phases of business which is devoted exclusively to the commercial fertilizer industry; "La Hacienda", published for the purpose of disseminating practical knowledge on agriculture, live stock and commerce to Spanish and Portuguese countries; "Postage", which furnishes information as to direct mail advertising, and "The Waste Trade Journal" intended to keep the trade in metal and textile wastes in touch with market news and prices...
...America and England are bound to interfere, for this is no domestic problem of France; it is a world crisis. We are bound morally to interfere, because it is in direct violation of the Versailles treaty, for an act of occupation or invasion must be sponsored by the allied nations...