Word: extention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reception tendered him by President Coolidge.* But I have received your issue of June 21 and not a single word have I found concerning my hero! I presume that you kept silent for lack of precise information as to what the man really is and to what extent is true the charge made against him that he was not eligible to the presidency. Therefore I am sending to you the material proof and evidence in one single sheet of paper, that some one of your staff can translate from the French. (The enclosure quotes from Article 11 of the Haitian...
...grain-fed horse. Last week it grew weary.- That is, many stocks which were at their record highs last February and which toppled in March, recovered, then broke slightly. (The March break brought the whole Manhattan Stock Exchange listings down an average of 30 points.) This table shows the extent of some recoveries: SPRING RECENT...
...Hohenberg, 24, eldest son of the assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary by his morganatic wife; to Elizabeth, Countess von Waldburg. As everyone knows, the children of a morganatic marriage are legitimate and the marriage, though it confers no rank upon the lesser party, is valid to the extent of precluding any other legal union while it exists. Individuals such as "Prince Louis de Bourbon," self-styled "brother of the King of Spain," often inform gullible pressmen that they are the result of a morganatic union, though another term would be more appropriate...
...great has their influence become that, on entering his junta, a Spanish officer ordinarily takes oath that he will obey his immediate superiors, even to the extent of refusing promotion by the military authorities at Madrid, except in the regular line of junta seniority...
...other humanitarian organization, private or public, can compare with the Rockefeller Foundation in the extent and thoroughness of its activities. Last year it spent $9,113,730 through its International Health Board, China Medical Board, Division of Medical Education, Division of Studies. Its remedial work covered the world...