Word: fer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN - Bright realism applied to a Southern evangelist who tries to shuffle his way into heaven with the methods of the cinema villain...
HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN?Realism taken to the heart of the Kentucky mountains, where a hypercritical religious exhorter seeks to wash out his rival's sins by turning a dam loose...
...background of the fight was the great nation of Argentinians vicariously lustive fer meat for their prize bull. They had insisted on U.. S. meat. A broker produced Farmer Lodge. The combination name was genuinely United States. It had an official sound. The Argentine populace clapped its hands: "A Senator's grandson* is not too good for our bull...
...Grew, American unofficial observer, permitted the concessions of the British Vickers-Armstrong Syndicate and French Regie Generale des Chemins de Fer, shorn of their obnoxious preferential clauses, to be included in the Treaty. In vain Sir Horace Rumbold argued that the Turkish Petroleum Co. concession for the Mesopotamian oilfields was valid, that his Government considered no other claims when British interests were affected and that any later contradictory agreement (i. e., the Chester Concession) made by the Turks was simply illegal. Mr. Grew icily referred the British representative to the three years' correspondence between the British and American Governments...
...Joseph Grew, in the name of the sacred principle of the " open door." To gain previous points from the Allies he had confirmed the monopolistic concessions granted before 1914 to the Vickers-Armstrong Syndicate for dock construction, to the French Compagnie Générale des Chemins de Fer for the railroad from Sivas to Samsun, and to the Turkish Petroleum Company, a British oil concession in the Mosul region based on a letter from a Grand Visier to a British Ambassador. Mr. Grew objected to the feature of these concessions which gave these Companies the preference in certain...