Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should the A. F. of L. bill become law of the land, the public Labor policy of the U. S. would...
...harems, Peter dragged them out with a ukase. Fancying a lowly laundress whom soldiers called Katinka, he made her the Tsarina Catherine I. He decreed a new calendar. With knowledge won by toiling incognito as a shipwright in Holland he built Russia's first effective navy. On land he defeated Charles XII of Sweden, most potent warrior of the age, at blood-drenched Pultava. But Peter I was a moody, discontented man. "Whose son am I?" he roared one day from the Throne. "Yours, Tihon Streshnief ? Speak or I will have you strangled...
...Land of the Soviets, Russian round-the-world plane, was forced down and damaged in an uninhabited Siberian region, 170 miles from Irkutsk. The tour was canceled...
...Zurich meeting, Jews skilled in law, shrewd in business, confident of their race, continued planning Palestine's development. They discussed a $15,000,000 Palestine finance corporation, approved a budget for the ensuing year of $3,750,000 for work, $5,000,000 for buying land. At the conclusion of the meeting Baron Edmond de Rothschild of France was elected honorary president of the Council, with Dr. Chaim Weizmann of London, main spring of Zionism, as real president. Two U. S. Jews were prominent...
That night the Scilly Islands, then the English mainland hove into sight. Journalist Von Wiegand radioed: "Land. It is Land's End. It is England. We have crossed the Atlantic. It is one o'clock in the morning, 42 hours and 42 minutes after we left Lakehurst. . . . A peaceful Zeppelin?over England?the first since the War. . . . All day long we have been trembling with excitement...