Word: explains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League States took no action last week; and the Nationalists thereupon called to Paris requesting Dr. C. C. Wu, distinguished statesman, and son of the late Chinese Minister to the U. S., Wu Ting-fang to proceed at once to Washington and explain the Nationalist case against Japan before U. S. public opinion. At Paris last week Dr. Wu, who is on a round-the-world trip for the Nationalist...
...votes. Though many a Republican cast his vote in the Democratic primary for strategic purposes, Candidate Hoover's total was larger than the combined totals of competing Republicans in California's last two presidential primaries. That Candidate Hoover is the Favorite Son of California did not explain it, because California's Hiram Johnson used to run for president and California's votes for Johnson never approached this year's Hoover total. Hooverites called it a great demonstration of the Beaver man's popular appeal...
These were the mournful words which Pope Pius XI wrote in an open letter to Cardinal Pompili, vicar of the Rome diocese, apropos of a "gymnastic" competition which was held in that city last week. The Pontiff proceeded to explain that he was not, in principle, opposed to athletics but that when competitions became too exhibitionistic, he felt compelled to frown. Governmental circles in Rome regarded the Pope's letter as another manifestation of the Vatican's opposition to what the Pope calls "Fascist monopolization of the education of youth." At the end of his document the Pontiff...
...explain how that regime came to exist is to recall the three principal White Russian Commanders whom the Allies had previously put in the field against Red Russia. One army struck North from Estonia under General Nikolai Nicholaievich Yudenich, who in 1919 advanced until he could see the spires of Petrograd, only to be driven back. A second White Army and Government was dominated by Admiral Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak. In 1919 he advanced from Siberia until he was within 450 miles of Moscow. Later, when he was driven back, he signed a ukase transferring the Siberian Government over which...
...disappointing customers who, because they see candy counters, soda fountains, lunch counters and, in five stores, complete restaurants, expect a full line of drugs. Customers whisper, their faces impassive as possible, hygienic and illegal requests to the Happiness clerks. The clerks on such frequent occasions are embarrassed. Frankly they explain that at their counters they have only bromo seltzer, aromatic spirits of ammonia, bicarbonate of soda and epsom salts, nothing more...