Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Belgium, voting is compulsory. That is why, in a nation of 7,744,000 people, some 2,500,000 votes were cast last week in a little-noticed general Belgian election.* The event drew small attention because there was very little at stake. M. Henri Jaspar is still prime minister. In the central legislature, the greatest gain in seats was made by the Liberal party, which had encouraged closer relations with France and opposed the liquor laws forbidding the drinking of hard liquor in public. To win voters from Antwerp and Brussels, notorious amateurs of fine Burgundy, the Liberals promised...
...pretty girls in Italy!" No hint of this eminently practical point reached the Fascist masses. The official Vatican paper, Osservatore Romano, thundered weightily against the degrading spectacle of beauty contests. Immediately following Prime Minister Mussolini's circular to the Italian prefects came an order from the Secretary General of the Fascist party, Signor Augusto Turati. Last month, he had ordered all "young and even little" Italian girls to have their skirts at least two fingers' lengths below their knees. Last week he altered his order to apply to all females, regardless of age, and specified a reasonable...
...President Portes Gil continued to consider Peace fully restored to his country. Final figures were published about the revolution?4,000 dead, 11,000 wounded, over 50 million dollars damage. And the country's strong man, Plutarco Elias Calles, was allowed to hand back the Ministry of War to General Joaquin Amaro, whose temporary resignation at the beginning of the revolution was blamed on an injury to his eye. General Amaro's eye was reported fully recovered but just in case it should go bad again, President Portes Gil persuaded General Calles not to go off, as he had planned...
...long statement to the press, General Calles reviewed his work as a leader of the "Grand Revolutionary Party."* He praised the party for the social and economic advances it had made, criticised it for political backwardness, as follows...
...more than a year a most doubtful ally of the Nationalist Government has been the so-called "Christian General," Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, holder of Peiping, Lord of the Chinese central government, owner of an enormous well-equipped private army...