Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...thousand people in the country control public opinion absolutely. Those people are very sensitive, and this must be taken into consideration in dealing with them. It is almost impossible for us to conceive a people with no political education, but the Colombians have none. In their early years they get none of that social education which is the real foundation of all political education. All that is non-existent there...
...when we acquired the Canal Zone in 1903. To my mind there has been no effective answer to this. The Treaty of 1846 provided that we should guarantee the neutrality of Panama and should guarantee the sovereignty of Colombia there, in return for which we were to get important commercial concessions. History shows that we repeatedly reassured Colombia that the treaty would be adhered to, and in the late' seventies we told the European powers that any interference in Colombia affairs would be considered obnoxious by the United States...
...separist move- ment; it was not a popular uprising. Envoys were sent to the United States to obtain aid, but they met with no encouragement. Discouraged, they went to New York. Bueno Varella, a journalist, gave them encouragement. He told them to start the revolt and they would get help from the United States, but he was merely guessing. They revolted, and United States warships were sent to preserve order. President Roosevelt, being a man who never goes around a table if he can jump over it, seized the opportunity for acquiring the Canal Zone. The Treaty...
...business department has now obtained nearly $1,500 worth of advertisements and subscriptions. It expects however, to get most of the advertisements during the vacation...
...current issue "A Plea for Prose." So far as my own experience goes, it is unique in either academic or professional journalism. Yet I should not be surprised if it were found significant of the general literary situation. I understand that it has become increasingly difficult to get good stories for the magazines, one reason being the greater profit from writing scenarios for the "movies," another the deductive attraction of vers libre. The latter enables a writer to utilize at once, it primitive, semi-poetic, material--idea of image--that, in the past, has had-to be worked up slowly...