Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Panama Corporation, Ltd., is not interested in rubber planting. We are a mineral mining company, pure and simple. Mr. Richard Marsh's fears and Senator William E. Borah's resolution are fantastic as well as stupid. We do not own the land...
...Republicans, much of whose strength is in upstate Dry regions, have heretofore been arid. The leaders to be chosen for this year's electoral battle were eagerly awaited. The one sure contestant had been Republican Senator Wadsworth, who comes up for reelection. He is the representative of a "landed family," the members of which have since 1790 acquired 35,000 acres of land in Livingstone County, N. Y., have occasionally taken part in politics and not infrequently in wars. His father and grandfather fought in the Civil War; he himself served in the Spanish-American War. After warring...
...annexation was negotiated, but President Cleveland came into office and withdrew the treaty. He sent out a commissioner, who hauled down the U. S. flag and demanded the restoration of the Queen if she would promise good behavior. Across 2,000 miles of water and 3,000 miles of land, President Dole faced President Cleveland and refused to abandon Hawaiian democracy to any king or queen. When McKinley was inaugurated in 1897, a new treaty of annexation was drawn and ratified. Sanford B. Dole, the President, became Sanford B. Dole, the Territorial Governor?and so he ruled for six years...
...agricultural laborers, tenants and peasants through the creation of free land in the confiscated estates...
Comeback? With Soviet gold, Mongol troops and Russian officers, General Feng Yu-hsiang, "Christian Bolshevist War Lord,'" recently driven from Peking (TIME, April 12) was last week reported preparing a drive from Siberia on his native land. Then quite suddenly the occidental press discovered the General in Berlin. Perhaps he was only buying peanuts...