Word: frees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irish Free State is the smallest British Dom-'nion, but is technically a "nation," just as are the larrer "dominions...
...Last week fat King Fuad, a placid puppet of Great Britain, signed two decrees. One suspended the Egyptian Chamber of Deputies and Senate for "three years, or longer if circumstances shall so require." The second decree suspended ''indefinitely" Article XV of the Egyptian Constitution wherein is guaranteed free speech and freedom of the press...
Thus by a single coup de politique the Great Power whose name stands axiomatically for a free Parliament and free speech, deprived Egyptians of all parliamentary or democratic expression and gagged them into nonresistance...
...Great Britain are protected from newspaper libel by laws far more drastic than any similar U. S. statute. Last week Manhattan's Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes won heavy compensation from the London Sunday Express which had erroneously reported the Cardinal to have said that the late assassinated Irish Free State Minister of Justice Kevin O'Higgins was "an English hireling...
...bargee in question was one Isobel Stone, 23, lyric-soprano, who was discovered last week, with her sister, Margaret Stone (Mrs. Richard O'Neill), living rent free upon a wretched scow near the slums of Manhattan. She was not a bargee by birth; her father indeed was the late William A. Stone, onetime (1899-1903) Governor of Pennsylvania, defender of famed Harry K. Thaw. A millionaire and a man of fashion, called "Pennsylvania's greatest Governor," he had died in 1920, his large fortune dissipated in unfortunate speculations. Isobel Stone with her sister Margaret was compelled to earn...