Word: foes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Alfonso did a great deal for Belgians who were deported by the Germans during the war. In many cases he was able to save them from death sentences, imposed by their barbarous foe...
General Ludendorff inspected several detachments of the Fatherland League troops (unofficial royalist army). After the men had goose-stepped past him, he addressed them: " The time is soon coming when the whole German people will be called on to free our country from the foe, when we can again serve in the good cause of our old ruling house, which we formerly so loyally and honorably served...
...Basil Zaharoff-again the shadow of his name crosses the news. (See Page 12.) Coal Profiteers (even though William Randolph Hearst is their most active foe...
...receipts should continue large, and permit a continued policy of improving equipment; this should in turn begin to reduce the item of " maintenance," which has naturally been proportionately heavy while old equipment had to be used. Such a policy is always most expensive in the end. The most serious foe to railroad prosperity is probably Congress, and not until December can the danger of further legislative experiment be added to the railroad managers' already sufficient burdens...
...York American, warring upon City Comptroller Charles L. Craig (foe to Mayor Hylan), prints each day a short editorial headed: "The Calendar of a Man Who Failed." The editorial discusses Mr. Craig passionately. And invariably the last two sentences are: "Number of days in office-1,881 (or whatever the figure happens to be). Number of days in office without doing anything...