Word: foe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After losing the Republican nomination for President in 1920 he accepted the thankless job of Governor General of the Philippines. His administration was highly efficient, productive ? though Filipinos clamoring for independence called it harsh. Said Manuel L. Quezon, President of the Philippine Senate, long a foe of Governor General Wood's administration: "He was always courteous to me. He was a hard working chief executive and always determined in his purpose to do the right thing...
Singling out Communist Russia as the natural foe of Fascist Italy, Signor Turati cried: "The antithesis is clear; either Moscow will win or Rome will win. But you know there is no doubt that victory will rest with Rome...
...rights and title of Crown Prince; but with the advent of Mme. Lupescu he abdicated, announcing that he had become a private citizen. This status was confirmed by the Rumanian Parliament, but jurists doubt the constitutionality of the proceedings, which were hastily put through by M. Bratiano, avowedly a foe to Carol. As yet no satisfactory explanation has revealed why the Crown Prince thus played into the hands of the Dictator...
Significance. Sir William Joynson-Hicks, or "Jix" in popular parlance, has the name of being an able and upright man, but a passionate, implacable foe of "Communism" in its every manifestation. He and Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, have been trying for months if not years to get the Cabinet to break with Russia, against the sober judgment of Premier Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain...
...Foe of Capital Punishment...