Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three hundred thousand men are now striking in the Ruhr district for " a dollar a day pay." The Germans are concerned over the strike, which they fear may lead to extensive damage in the mines. The French are confident that the Communist strike will soon die down, but this is far from certain. Meanwhile they decline to allow the Germans to deal with the Communists unless they promise to order every man in the Rhineland and the Ruhr back to work...
...Fish left the New York Legislature to lead a company of Colored Infantry to the Battle of Champagne. He returned with a croix de guerre; went into the insurance business; married Grace, daughter of Alfred Chapin, former Democratic mayor of Brooklyn; was elected to Congress. He it was who introduced the bill into Congress to honor " The Unknown Soldier...
...futility and wrong of war." It seems that there is a distinction between the wrong of attempting to settle international dispute by means of war and the wrong of war itself. But however that may be, the fact remains that the convention labored to phrase a resolution which would lead to the teaching of a certain view...
...reported remedy for cancer developed by Dr. W. Blair Bell, of Liverpool, seems, on the basis of the meager information at hand, to be the most promising of all recent " cures" that have been suggested (TIME, May 19). Dr. Bell's specific is a solution of colloidal lead (a colloid is a gluelike, noncrystalline organic substance that will not pass through a membrane), which appears to have a marked effect on malignant growths like cancer. Dr. Bell has been experimenting with it for 18 years and has recently employed it in 50 cases given up by surgeons as hopeless...
...turned what hid fair to become a defeat into a victory, and finally downed the Westbrook Seminary nine by the score of 6 to 5 on Soldiers Field yesterday. The game was fast throughout, the visitors hitting freely in the early innings and piling up a 5 to 3 lead...