Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sinn Fein: This group represents the die-hard Republicans, led by Miss Mary McSwiney, sister of Cork's late Lord Mayor. It believes in forcible methods to overthrow the Free State regime...
...North Sydney, Nova Scotia, far away from his tour-companions, Edward of Wales and George, his brother, in Alberta, gathered a distinguished group to bid the Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin farewell. It included Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King; National Defense Minister Col. J. L. Ralston; Postmaster General Hon. Peter J. Veniot. Sirens shrieked and the big liner moved away on its voyage across the Atlantic. Handkerchiefs waved, silk hats were lifted, last messages shouted. And gradually the great ship became like a rowboat on the horizon and eventually was seen no more...
...quarrel concerned Fascist policy and was between two members of the fire-eating wing of Fascismo, (Emilio Settimelli and Mario Carli, editors of the Impero [Power], sometimes described as an official Fascist journal) and the two members of the weaker-kneed group, Curzio Suckert and Telesio Interlandi, (editors of the Tevere [Stable], a convenient backyard for Dictator Mussolini's mental gambits...
Crown. Anton Smetona, popular father of his country and the first and present President of the republic of Lithuania (founded 1918), politely, firmly, magnificently refused the offer of a golden crown last week. A group of tenacious monarchists raised the flag of royalism, which has been a dead emblem many years, because they felt that the country would prosper, as it did of old, under the sway of an autocrat and because they thought that the President, with themselves as his courtiers and advisors, could raise the standard of Lithuania to its highest eminence...
Raki. The Turkish Government decided to sell an alcoholic drink called "people's raki," despite the fact that Mohammedanism, to which religion the bulk of the Turkish nation belongs, prohibits intoxicating beverages. A concession to brew raki was given originally to a Polish group, but because the public complained that it was adulterated and caused blindness, and also because they refused to buy it, the concession was withdrawn. The new move is an attempt to provide the people with "pure stuff" at popular prices.- Robbers. From the gaunt heights of wild Kurdistan, a mountainous district lying partly in Turkey...