Word: impor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prevent it." He called out 200 National Guardsmen to protect Bouyer "at any hazard" on his journey to Eufaula for trial. The courtroom resembled an armed camp. Bouyer was convicted in ten min utes, sentenced to death, pleaded for a quick execution. Like a person of impor tance, he was then carried back to prison in a special train...
Since the Soviet press has been largely inaccessible to Opposition leaders for many months, this concession was of the highest impor tance, and suggested that a tangible ground of compromise between Dic tator Stalin and Comrade Trotzky may have been found at last...
...pieces. Little is the recognition given these crea tions; no color reproductions of them have been made. Yet, according to Lee Simonson, who has lately visited Russia to inspect the work of modernist painters, who is familiar with con temporary German, French, U. S. artists: "Rivera is the most impor tant artist living today. He means as much to the modern world as Giotto did to the Renaissance.* He is the culmination, the full development of the modernist movement...
...Morrill, Columbia Hospital, Washington, complained of the increasing price of catgut (for operations), due, he said, "to the control of the raw material by packers and an apparent intent on their part to attempt to control the manufacture of this product." Cost of Cure. The most impor tant problem facing hospital administration is the caring for people of moderate means who can not afford the cost of private rooms in hospitals and do not wish to suffer what seemed to them the humiliation of free wards. Alba Boardman Johnson, onetime (1911-19) president of the Bald win Locomotive Works...
...newspapers been asked to state journalistic precepts by which they were actuated in making the Chapman case of first-page impor- tance, the most honest replies they could have given would have been in effect...