Word: eral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Cannon Jr., many years ago, pinned upon his mother's breast her only jewel (the white emblem of Prohibition) and laid her to rest and dedicated his life to her battle against alcohol. No mean gen eral, he could fight on two fronts, upward in the church, onward against politicians. Both battles culminated last year in un qualified personal victory. In politics, he undermined the Byrd better-government organization in Virginia, which endorsed the Wet Smith, and put the State in the Republican columns. For this activity he was declared last week to be the man who had done...
British Monroe Doctrine. Advocates of treaty reservations point out that sev eral of the signatories have already sharply defined their individual attitudes regarding the agreement's scope and meaning. Great Britain, for example, has issued (TIME, July 30) a very sweeping statement that her right to self-defense includes the right to take whatever measures ap pear necessary in whatever portion of the world British safety may be threatened. Senator Borah said that the Chamberlain note meant nothing at all, inasmuch as it guaranteed to Great Britain nothing that was not already implicit in the treaty...
...Palace of Justice in Rosario, and by the tunnel of the Santa Fe rail road, anarchists last week placed bombs. In due time the bombs exploded, caused damage, hurt none. Argentine police, unruffled, arrested sev eral suspects...
...intervened, the United States would have experienced a worse condition than in 1894. ... It is the sincere wish of the writer and this industry that your hopes of success may be blasted." Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Hess Hawley and sev¬ eral other directors of college athletics. R e a s o n s : n o t a n n o unced...
...multifarious are the disguises and devices with which Squealer cloaks his criminal doings that no one, not even the reader, can guess who he is. Dangerous doings centre around a London import and export concern; there is jolly old Frank Sutton, who runs this company; his gen eral manager is a surly individual, Captain John Leslie, known to be an ex-convict, to whom Sutton in his generous but perhaps too innocent fashion has given "another chance;" functioning under Captain Leslie is the inscrutable Tillman, always poking his nose into everyone's business. Frank Sutton's secretary, who seems...