Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highly educated and patriotic native Chinese wrote me recently: "What China needs most of all is a Mussolini." I am inclined to believe that Feng measures nearer to this admirable standard of patriotism and exemplary life than any other of the Chinese leaders now conspicuous...
Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld, counselor to the U. S. Embassy at Mexico City. ¶President Coolidge commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of one Malcomb Howard, 35, Negro, convicted in Washington of murdering Jessie Nelson, girl friend, last winter...
...Union Trust Co., Cleveland. To assist him in the East, Mr. Nutt picked out a Manhattanite, Jeremiah Milbank, mild-mannered Yale graduate ('09), careful investor of a multi-million patrimony; clubman, generous donor to philanthropies (especially for cripples); director of such concerns as the Southern Railway, Metropolitan Life, Chase National Bank, Corn Products; board chairman of Case, Pomeroy & Co. Like Banker Nutt and the Democracy's Raskob, Mr. Milbank is new-to politics but widely acquainted, keen to learn...
...name, but that was dropped. He served 38 months at Atlanta Penitentiary, including extra months to work off $20,000 in fines. Then he took a pauper's oath and departed, a free man, to see his 79-year-old mother in North Carolina; to begin life again with his wife and child. The wife taught school while waiting...
President Calles-What motive had you to deprive General Obregon of his life...