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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest proportion of women working in any one state is in South Carolina, where more than a third earn their own living. The least proportion of women working is in West Virginia, where about one ninth of all women earn their living...
Under 25, most women are engaged in manufacturing and clerical work, the next greatest number being in domestic service...
...shall not be niggardly bargainers if we meet the generous friendship which is near and dear to our hearts. We no longer talk of holding the gorgeous East in fear, but ask India to march side by side with us in fruitful, harmonious partnership which might create the greatest and proudest days of Indian history...
...greatest work is done by what is called "infiltration," which is used with considerable success to stir up the Moorish tribes in the rear of the French lines or actually in them: A single Riffian regular crawls in the night past the French outposts, visits villages in the rear to urge war upon the French and to promise rewards from his Chief, Abd-el-Krim. The visits are repeated nightly; and if kind words fail, threats are used, and occasionally an assassination is committed to terrorize the petty chieftains into submission. The Valley of the Wergha, along which the fighting...
...more extraordinary, three fourths of the people are Roman Catholics. The Government, which is predominantly anti-Catholic, cannot last without Catholic support and hence, while the Socialists are demanding a break in diplomatic relations, suppression of religious teaching and complete separation of Church and State, the Catholics, as the greatest political force, have to be mollified...