Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glass continued in an interrogative vein as mordant as the whortleberry juice of his beautiful homeland. By what Constitutional authority or Federal statute, he asked to know, did the State Department assume to review private business transactions? Who, he begged to be informed, was "the experienced, the tested credit man" of the State Department...
...minority report postulates as wrong that 500,000 Belgian workers were deported from their homeland to Germany and, in some instances, were forced to labor there...
...majority of the Commission declared that further study is necessary on this point, stating that the presence of 500,000 able-bodied Belgians in their occupied homeland would have constituted a threat to the German forces of occupation...
...sincere Christian workers and missionaries the sacking of their homes in Nanking which was most extensive last week, seemed only an essentially minor disaster in the wreck of their spiritual work. The typical Christian missionary places his loyalty to China second only to that for his homeland; and his concern for the welfare of the Chinese is apt to exceed the care he takes of his family or himself...
...stimulation of international minded ness, The fact that the Peace Treaties were signed about seven years ago does not mean that the effect of the War is not still felt in Europe, especially among students. There are at the moment some 10,000 Russian students exiled from their homeland, many of whom are to be found in the universities of Europe trying to carry on their studies against tremendous odds. It is these students whom the S. F. F. is trying to help in their hour of great trouble. Further, in France, owing to the fall of the franc there...