Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...praised by you derive power only from the person by whom or the circumstance in which they are uttered. Example-"Too proud to fight." Had that not been attributed to Wilson at just one critical moment in our history it would have had no more power than any other group of four words. I admire Prime Minister Baldwin for his homespun virtues, and I rejoice at his steady political good luck-but I consider him a weak, not a powerful, speaker. That this is not set down in malice, you may judge from the fact that I have received only...
...country" for three years, Chief Engineer Rice wrote a new feature into the specifications for Queens sewers. After this specification was inserted, sewer assessments soared. Taxpayers grumbled, politicians muttered about graft, but nothing was done until the past Autumn when Lawyer Henry H. Klein, representing a group of Queens taxpayers, charged that $8,000,000 had been "wasted" by the Queens sewer builders. It developed that the only kind of sewer pipe that would meet Chief Engineer Rice's specifications was a patented product for which one John M. Phillips, good friend of President Connolly...
...wondered why the forces of law and order were described by Consul Huston in such vague terms as "troops" and "soldiers." Whose troops? What soldiers? Very probably the harassed Consul did not know-perhaps no one knew. All that remains in Canton by way of "government" is a fluid group of military men whose leaders constantly bottle up one another. Their "troops," however, still retain the discipline and weapons needed to mop up a "rabble" led by "Russians...
...Shanghai a group of Chinese who still call themselves the "Nationalist Government" went through the mummery, last week, of breaking off relations with Soviet Russia. Their famed Chiang Kaishek, onetime Nationalist generalissimo and conqueror of half China said: "I intend to exert my full strength to bring peace within the Nationalist territories in order to enable the re-oranization of the Nationalist government and provide for the active resumption of warfare against Marshal Chang Tso-lin [Dictator of North China], who must be eliminated before China will become peaceful...
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