Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trouble enough has the Japanese post given President Hoover. Most expensive of diplomatic jobs (it is estimated to require $50,000 per year more than the ambassadorial salary of $17,000) it was left vacant a year ago by the resignation of Charles MacVeagh. President Hoover offered it to both Hubert Work and Roy Owen West, who both declined. The London parley necessitated an appointment, even temporary, of a man capable of conducting the intricate behind scenes negotiations incident to any international conference. A new complication had arisen with Japan's request for a change in its cruiser...
...back up to a stairway. Troopers told a convict named Johnson, who was helping them, to pull a mattress off a barricade. A bullet stopped Johnson when he took his first step. A bullet stopped Captain Bruton of the guards. On the top floor there were six rebels left. Troopers brought machine guns into position...
...Wiesbaden and at Bingen last week the last British troops shouldered their haversacks, marched out of Germany. Left behind was a lone Briton, one William Seeds, Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commissioner since 1928, who must represent the dignity and power of the British Empire in Germany until the last French and Belgian troops have quit the third Rhineland zone in June...
Last week he was 80 years old. The National League of Former Army Officers gave him what approximated a state banquet in Berlin. Doors and windows were left open so that the public might gaze once more upon some of the oldtime heraldry of Imperial Germany. The hall blazed with medals and the bright colors of bygone dress uniforms ? the blue and red of the infantry, the blue and gold of the navy, the white, green, black, blue, yellow and pink of the cavalry. Feldmar-schall Mackensen, "Faithfullest of the Faithful," entered the hall amid a thunder of hocks...
Last week's victory left President Chiang as firmly established as he had been at any time in the past year. Rebel generals, severely practical, talked of suspending hostilities until March and warmer weather...