Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life of Benito Mussolini can be thrown into greater antitheses. Born in the town of Forli (some accounts say Varano di Costa), he heard his father at an early age declaiming against the constituted state of society. His father was a convinced revolutionary, and like father little Benito grew to be. Had it not been for his devout mother, he might never have received an education -such as it was-at the normal school of Forlimpopoli, a nearby village to which the Mussolinis had moved...
...fortnight ago, Ignace Jan Paderewski, famed pianist and onetime (1919) Premier of Poland, was lured to Salisbury Square, London, where is situate the Press Club. In this building, whose walls have heard many a famed man, M. Paderewski opened his speech on Poland by telling the well-known "elephant story...
...done by "angry students and workmen." As I had left Canton the Saturday before the shooting, and was in Hongkong at the time, I am in a position to know that your statement was (unintentionally) misleading. I have talked with an eye-witness from the Shameen side and have heard fully the Chinese point of view from colleagues of mine who were at Canton Christian College the afternoon of the shooting; I have, also, a copy of the British Consul-General's affidavit giving the facts as he witnessed them. There were four or five thousand armed, uniformed soldiers...
...ranch to beat off a horde of brigands. At the same time the brigands seized the person of Dr. H. J. Howard, eye specialist of the Rockefeller Hospital in Peking, who was visiting Mr. Palmer at his ranch, dragged him to their mountain lair, since when nothing has been heard of him. Mr. Palmer's mother, Dr. Howard's son, one Harold Baldwin (formerly of Derby, Conn.), together with wife and child made good their escape...
...soon as the name of "Morgan" was heard, Mr. Anderson showed signs of special alarm-a common and popular habit beside the Potomac. He attacked the approval of the merger by the C. & O. stockholders as a "stock manipulation and a financing-rigging scheme." As to details, however, Mr. Anderson failed to specify. Just how these matters were relevant to the fairness of the Van Sweringen merger plan, he failed to state. Ex-Secretary of War Baker demanded that the scope of the inquiry in the future be limited. The I. C. C., impartial but sweltering, reserved its decision...