Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppression of the illicit traffic in soul-destroying drugs. We shall conserve all the natural resources of the country and prevent the hand of monopoly from closing on them and on our water powers, so that our children after us shall find this still a fair land to dwell within. And to the veterans of our wars, especially to those who were stricken and wounded in the country's service and whose confidence has been so cruelly and corruptly abused, we shall give, in honor and in honesty, the grateful care they have so justly earned...
...Said the organization, through its spokesman (not Mr. Gompers but its Vice President, Matthew Woll*) : "General Dawes has said that Samuel Gompers and other Trade Union officials are more concerned about the right of Union men to assault and murder peaceful citizens than about upholding the law of the land. No one has made a more vicious and unwarranted declaration than that...
...this the daily press printed with a fine disregard of fact. All this, TIME, having no staff correspondent in the land of Iran, ignorantly mistook for sound statements of fact...
...Government is the same as yours. It has executive, legislative and judicial branches, and the law-makers will decide regarding the land titles of foreigners. The rights of American and British oil property holders will be fully protected...
...Patrick, aged 74, has announced that she will now rest from her long educational labors. They say, in Bulgaria, that she was good, helpful to the many Bulgar lasses at her college, letting Bulgar village girls pay their fees in corn and wheat when poverty was upon their land; that she spent nearly 50 vacations in the U. S. raising funds to run the College. They say it was she who mothered Bulgaria's Woman-Suffrage Movement...