Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moroccan war is one of high lights and shadows, corresponding to this last most picturesque of incidents. The daily press dispatches from the Riff should never bore anyone. The American soldiers of fortune with the French forces ignore the state departments' august disapproval and proceed to the day's fighting like bad boys playing truant. Unreasonable obstinacy displayed by the Riffians in refusing to be intimidated by the comic opera Spanish army precipitates a political crisis in Madrid. A French officer, perhaps a distant relative of General Nicholas Herkimer, directs his command from a stretcher for eleven days after being...
Without judging the rights and wrongs of the struggle, one cannot avoid some sympathy with the desert chieftain who is putting up a gallant fight against the French military machine. The loss of Asdir, the Riffian capitol, was hailed last week by the French press as the definitive beginning of Abd-el-Krim's downfall. His cause, of course, was doomed as soon as the French began to take the rebellion seriously but newspaper readers will be sorry to see him disappear from the day's news, if only because, as this latest playfulness with his minister shows, he does...
...Charles Garland, radical son of a Boston millionaire, took his $800,000 share of his father's estate and set up the "American Fund for Public Service" to fight capitalism. Most of the foundation consisted of stock of the First National Bank of New York. Last week Wall Street laughed heartily. Council for the foundation announced that in three years the foundation had made more than $1,000,000 by increase in the value of its investments, that although $500,000 had been given away, the principal of the fund was more than $1,200,000. In two years...
...Angora, after declaring that dealings between his Government and Britain in the near future will be through the regular diplomatic channels. 2) From Angora, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President-Dictator of Turkey, was quoted as follows: "Our army is ready and its morale is excellent. If we should have to fight-which I don't think likely-we shall certainly not shirk the issue. . . . Mosul is Turkish . . . nothing can change that . . . we will never abandon that view." 3) In London feeling ran high against Premier Baldwin "for not having read an English paper during his recent vacation...
...line, grandson of Ghulab Singh, founder of the Kashmir dynasty. For two score years he ruled in Oriental splendor from his palace at Srinagar, effected important political and social reforms, and was so far friendly to the British that he sent an army of 10,000 men to fight with the Allies during the World War, and declined $500,000 due him as payment for their services. Grateful, Britannia showered the aged potentate of nearly three score and ten with decorations. Touched and admiring, British citizens hailed him as an ardent cricketer, who, when he could no longer bowl, field...