Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never (like Imperialist Europeans) grabbed "concessions" of land in China, and consequently has no concessions to relinquish...
...only natural that St. Valentine's Day should be the birthday of the only baby of the most popular lady of the land. Paulina R. Longworth, daughter of Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Speaker Nicholas Longworth, will be two years old on Feb. 14, 1927. Would it not be delightful if certain interesting ladies of official Washington should be invited to the home of Mrs. Longworth to celebrate the day by inscribing little stories in Paulina's memory book? In order to serve history faithfully, it would be best for each of these ladies to describe herself accurately...
...face their problems. Young people from all over Latin America are coming into Mexico to study conditions there. There are young men are women there from Peru and Argentina. They seek inspiration. In studying the problems of Mexico they are facing their own problems, problems of religion, race, land distribution. Mexico's influence in Latin America is great because the people there understand what she is doing. Her influence in Central and South America will be what the influence of the French Revolution, was to contemporary Europe...
...Mexico is the outpost of Latin America in her relation to the United States. Every time a move is made in Mexico the big question is "What will the United States think about it?" This is a grave situation, for Mexico is by race land, and culture bound against American imperialism, if there is any such thing. Mexico has become by the logic of her contact with Letin America, the Spiritual spokesman of Latin America...
...tones of a fond but foolish mother. He is very mischievous and misbehaved, and I simply can't do a thing with him. Do you think it a good idea to put him on a boat under a stern old sea captain all summer and not permit him to land...