Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senecas? Never! Their government, they set forth, has been peaceably exercised through chiefs chosen by "mothers of the tribe''-a practice somewhat modified in 1848 to conform with the practices of their white neighbors. But throughout all the disasters which have fallen upon their race in the last three centuries they have not yielded their sovereignty. Presumably the stubborn Chief Hoag is not ignorant of the fate of other Indians .who also had treaties with the U. S. He remembers the Cherokees whose lands were "annexed" by Georgia in 1828. In vain they appealed to President Jackson...
...President permitted himself to be quoted indirectly as sympathizing with M. Edouard Herriot, fallen Premier of France. French papers promptly attempted to rap his knuckles...
When Premier Herriot fell from the grace of the Senate, last week (TIME, Apr. 13), for secretly pursuing a policy of inflation, U. S. President Calvin Coolidge took what was called an "unprecedented step": he paid tribute to the fallen Premier...
...However, we can understand Mr. Coolidge's motives when he shows his preference for the fallen Minister. Anglo-Saxoon money still fights against...
Baseball has never been known as a perilous pursuit; seldom is the Grim Reaper seen, his scythe laid by, warming up with four bats. Yet, at the present time, twilight has fallen upon the Gods, managers have made mutterings to the effect that the state of affairs is baseball's Götterdämmerung. Babe Ruth, home run magnate, "attended by the sympathy of the Nation" and press, lay in Manhattan, stricken with cold, run-down condition, influenza, indigestion and a bump on the head. In Nashville, Tenn., visited with far less solicitude, Tyrus Cobb, "the greatest player...