Word: grant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest Who's Who, searchers may read that the Congressman from the 26th district of New York State is Hamilton Fish, born 1849, son of President Grant's famed Secretary of State. It is a mistake. It is also a joke, for the mistake has persisted in Who's Who for two editions...
...Nationalist Foreign Minister Eugene Chen, issued a proclamation: "A great and impressive fact must be grasped by all: the Chinese question now is not what Great Britain and other powers may wish to grant China to meet 'the legitimate aspirations of the Chinese'; but the question is what China may justly grant to Great Britain and the other powers...
...Confederate army officer who never surrendered; in a deep sleep at Point Pleasant, West Va. He was blamed for the burning of Chambersburg and wandered as an exile for two years, following the Civil War. Part of this time he saw military service in Mexico under Maximilian. General Grant intervened in 1867, quashed the stigma attached...
...should be said that "The Big Parade" a year ago did not take anything away from the present war film at the Majestic. "What Price Glory" has so much that is excellent in motion picture development that even an individual who has sworn to shun every war picture must grant that here is one which is really worth seeing, and that before Saturday night...
...this country. One of the most recent instances of the sort was the admission of an alien whose permits were satisfactory while his wife, American born, was detained by officials under a technically. The Stobbs proposal purposes to deal with difficult situations by allowing the secretary of labor to grant at his discretion some of the many unused permits that remain for countries where there is no rush for admission to individuals from, countries where the quota is exhausted...