Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King is said to have been baptized, together with a bottle of water from the River Jordan, was offered to be sold for charity. The water was brought from Jerusalem by the late Dean Stanley of Westminster who accompanied the late King Edward on a visit to the Holy Land...
...France and as such outranks Marshal Lyautey, the French Resident General in Morocco, who will continue to be the supreme French civil authority in the Protectorate. "My duty," said Marshal Petain, "is to coordinate the reinforcements which are being sent to Morocco continuously. Those going from France will land at the Casablanca and those from Algeria will proceed directly to Taza. The question is to "use them actively in the area...
Count Antonio Cippico, Italian Senator and delegate to the League of Nations, stepped ashore at Manhattan and rolled off on his sea legs to Williamstown, Mass, where, when his legs get accustomed to dry land, he will fire volleys of salutes at Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy...
...Austen Chamberlain in numerous speeches made it evident that the cause of the present Chinese unrest is due to Bolshevik influence, which, of course, Bolshevik Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin indignantly denied. Unbiased reports from China-that is, the average of biased reports, for all communications from that once celestial land are more or less colored-seem unanimous that the root of the disturbances is due to the foreign Powers which exploit China economically and dominate her politically. Bolshevik influences, which are obviously existent, found rather than caused a situation of deep discontent, which was naturally receptive of Moscow...
...reported that they originally intended to buy the island as a land speculation, but changed their minds and decided to build winter homes on its 400 acres of tropic expanse...