Word: grandee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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One senator had the idea that it was something like the whisky made by bootleggers another that it was made of some kind of bean, and a third that it was an essence of sunflower seed; investigation, however, decided that it comes from a certain part of a cactus blossom...
Radio is transforming the otherwise harmless air into a veritable bucket-shop bedlam, with twenty-one thousand transmitting stations between the Great Lakes and the Rio Grande. The government itself has begun to display distress signals. The Kellogg-White Federal Radio Control Bill has been introduced to bring some sort...
It is not often that the United States has a chance to influence its neighbor beyond the Rio Grande to any great extent. For years conquests, diplomatic overtures, punitive expeditions, and commercial ventures have had equally little effect on either the thoughts or the actions of our sister republic. During...
There is no question of the feeling of the people of the United States toward Mexico. Insult has followed insult, murder has followed murder until the title of "Civis Americans" within walking distance of the Rio Grande has almost been the equivalent of a death warrant. It seems ages since...
Of outrage and domestic violence in Mexico there has been no end; but of actual revolution on a large scale, there has been comparatively little during the past four or five years. As yet, the Sonora rebellion does not seem to require any immediate change in this country's attitude...