Word: granted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ulysses S. Grant said: "I am not nor have I ever been a candidate for renomination. I would not accept a nomination if it were tendered, unless it should come under such circumstances as to make it an imperative duty?circumstances not likely to arise...
British Delegation's Concepts. 1) Britain to retain actual naval supremacy, while seeming to grant the U. S. equality with herself in a shrewdly-worded treaty; 2) The Coolidge Administration expected by the British to accept this treaty, so drawn as to make good political capital in the U. S. by giving the impression that a Coolidge victory had been won at Geneva; 3) The essence of this subterfuge to be twofold: a) That the U. S. and Britain should each be allowed to build 600,000 tons of cruisers (that is to say, a great many more than...
...granting the 31-day respite, the Governor did not give any indication of what may be his final action. His Advisory Committee (President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, President Samuel W. Stratton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Judge Robert Grant) has not as yet held any meetings, presumably owing to Commencement duties of two of its members. Friends of Mr. Sacco & Mr. Vanzetti were disappointed because the respite was only for one month, but of course there is no reason why Governor Fuller cannot grant as many additional respites as seem necessary...
Baron Wrangel. Grant that the "White Russians" and Grand Duke Nikolai want to invade Russia. . . . There still remains a question: "Where would they get the 120,000 troops postulated last week by Dictator Stalin...
...boundary (Lat. 39" 43' 26.3" N.) between Maryland and Pennsylvania. It was surveyed in 1763-67 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon who were sent over from England to settle the dispute between the Baltimore and Penn families following Charles IPs grant to William Penn. When slavery became a U. S. issue, the Line was thought of as extending west via the Ohio River and the upper boundary of Missouri, separating free from slave states, North from South...