Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alvaro Obregon, born in the remote hamlet of Huatabampo, Sonora, 850 miles northwest of Mexico City, was solemnly returned thither, last week, to seek honest, humble rest. Over his grave will rise no ornate tombstone but at the head will rest a Crown of Clay, baked hard as porcelain. By this traditional symbol, the Republic of Mexico, which cannot crown a living hero, is accustomed to pay royal homage to the Heroic Dead...
...with the sound idea that higher interest rates abroad would attract much-needed funds. It ordered the Chicago bank to reduce its rediscount rate from 4 to 3½%. Chicago bankers, led by famed Melvin Alvah Traylor, head of the powerful First National Bank, dissented sharply, voiced grave warnings. Unheeding, the Federal Reserve forced its way, helped Europe weather its crisis...
...regiments" below Verdun was evident to officers and men alike. The callous commandant: "Four hundred thousand gone? I reckoned it at that." But the company cook, who had been chef to the king of Greece, thought the death of Narcissus on the rocks of Arcady pleasanter than a bloody grave in the confusion of attack...
...year, from Picpus Cemetery where Lafayette is buried, from the battlefield near Luneville where the first Americans fell in the World War. This earth was sealed in an urn of bronze and gold. The urn was then carried to the U. S. where it will be placed upon the grave of the late Rodman Wanamaker, who did much to further friendship between the U. S. and France. Men will do much to beautify that which they find most terrible ; thus the urn which is to contribute its comfort to Rodman Wanamaker's grave was fashioned by the fore most...
...sooner was the grave charge of "conspiracy against the state" read out to Bela Kun than he bounded to his feet and roared at the judges: "I am always conspiring for the welfare of the Soviet State, which is even now triumphing over your petty bourgeoise bureaucracy! . . . There is nothing criminal about my activities, which are always purely political...