Word: keepings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summer of 1918. President Wilson consented on his own responsibility to the use of U. S. troops on this remote frontier. The original Allied purpose was to offer a new threat to Germany on the East, following the collapse of Russia as a fighting force, to guard supplies, to keep U-boats out of the cold White Sea. But objectives became muddled. The Allied troops numbered some 27,000, of which 5,100 were U. S. soldiers. Twenty thousand "White" Russians joined them. The enemy became the Bolsheviki...
...referendum must be held, according to the constitution. If 50% of the electorate should vote with Hugenbergists?which seems utterly improbable?then the Liberty-Law would come automatically into effect despite its rejection by the Reichstag. Worse could not befall the Fatherland. The Allies will ruthlessly force her to keep paying reparations if she tries to refuse, but so long as she continues to pay willingly they will go on fattening with loans the wise goose that lays their golden eggs...
...Gentlemen, conquest is not our purpose. We will not keep one single square inch of Chinese territory. Good night...
Kick Out, Kick In. Louder than words the Soviet raids said: "We mean business. China must yield to our demands respecting the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, July 22, et seq.). Under the treaty of 1924 we have the right to keep Russian officials on that line. You kicked them off last July. We have demanded ever since that they be reinstated. Our rights date back to Tsarist times, when Russian money built the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria. We are ready to strike again. We have proved that you cannot resist us, even...
...sent his dark daughter Avis. Other New York names later enrolled were Vander Poel, Milburn, Wickes, Griswold. From Philadelphia came a Clothier. From Boston came a daughter of Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly; from Chicago came Pattersons of the Tribune. From the first Miss Charlotte managed to keep her girls well scattered geographically, taking only the cream of the applicants from Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Washington and the South...