Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vexing problem in the islands. As remedies, Colonel Thompson suggests that the administration of the Philippines be transferred from the War Department to some new bureau or department, that Governor General Wood's military advisers be replaced with civil experts, that the Filipinos be given increasing internal autonomy. Land Laws. The Philippine legislature should amend the land laws, so as to attract U. S. capital to develop, on a large scale, the production of rubber, coffee, sugar, rice, etc. The U. S. Congress should not attempt to interfere with these land laws. Banking. The Federal Reserve system should...
...never could understand the line Oswald has taken. He was born with a gold spoon in his mouth-it cost a ?100 doctor fee to bring him into the world. He has lived on the fat of the land and never did a day's labor in his life. He had the best education and money was spent on him galore. If he and his wife want to go in for labor why don't they do a bit of work themselves or why doesn't Lady Cynthia sell her pearls for the Smethwick poor...
Died. Jean Philippe Worth, 70, famed Parisian couturier; in Paris. In his youth he studied painting under Corot. Said Hearst Editor Brisbane: "He has gone to a land where there is no sewing. . . . His word meant more in real authority to the world's women than all the decisions of a thousand high judges...
...Byrne's novel, is a theatrically diseased mess. The story follows the lives of a young country gentleman, Dermot McDermot (Walter Abel) and a neighboring country gentleman's daughter, Connaught O'Brien (Katherine Alexander), both born to the grassy slopes of Ireland, in love with their land, their horses, their people and each other. She is forced to marry a villain who shoots her pet race horse after good old Bart had won the big steeplechase. The race is a childish, ridiculous, clumsy scene, wherein one horse, galloping a mile a minute on a treadmill, was easily...
Moreover, there exists the ever pressing problem of eventual reconciliation between the Italian State and the Apostolic See. Might not this too long delayed rapprochement be appropriately achieved by a Pope from another land...