Word: expression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There certainly was no express understanding [ i. e. arrived at between the President and Mr. Haney] concerning the continuance in office or the removal of President Palmer. . . I myself had definitely advised you that I could not accept a reappointment if any conditions whatever attached to that reappointment. . . I did not intend to lead you, directly or indirectly, Mr. President, to understand that I would be a party to continuing Mr. Palmer as President of the Fleet Corporation...
...little knot of people, perhaps 50 at most, gathered in the railway station at Brussels waiting for the departure of the Paris express. A tall elderly couple were about to take the train. The woman was talking to a lad who seemed to be her son and apparently giving him much good advice...
When the train was ready, the parents boarded it, the mother said "Goodby, Charles" to the boy. In a moment the express was roaring over the countryside bearing the King and Queen of the Belgians to Paris, to Marseilles, to India, on a three-months journey...
According to The Daily Express, a London newspaper owned by Lord Beaverbrook (former William Maxwell Aitken, a Canadian), strong pressure is being exerted on the British Government to appoint Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty Governor General of Canada when Lord Byng retires next year. Failing him, Field Marshal Lord Haig is suggested...
Precisely, our mission is to hold an election through which those entitled to express their wishes at the polls shall have free opportunity to vote without interference according to the dictates of their consciences...