Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Josef Stalin does not think so. He knows that Russia is a land of unlimited possibilities, almost unscratched resources and largely unused manpower. . . . Under the lash of his will I believe that the program outlined . . . will be accomplished. . . . Moreover M. Stalin has behind him young Russia, that never knew Tsarist slavery and is free from the faults and vices of servile psychology. He and they have a daring which Danton declared was a guide to victory and a faith which one greater than Danton said could move mountains...
...until 2:15 p. m. did Foreign Minister Rada y Gamio scrawl his signature for the 138th time onto the final document giving the very last parcel of Tacna to Peru...
...hour and 45 minutes later the new Peruvian municipal government was installed in Tacna City, at exactly 4 p. m. The local Peruvian Superior Court was proclaimed to be functioning at 5 p. m. Trucks and vans piled high with Chilean furniture rumbled out all afternoon from Peruvian Tacna City, sped to the still Chilean seaport of Arica City, 39 miles distant and 1,800 feet below...
...situation was worth conversation. As rotten as San Francisco's politics were San Francisco's turn-of-the-century newspapers. To gain an end editors stopped at nothing. A typical incident: at 1 p. m. one day the city editor of William Randolph Hearst's morning Examiner told one of his newssnatchers that R. A. Crothers, owner of the Bulletin, had been attacked as he was emerging from a restaurant. Rushing to the Bulletin, the Examiner reporter learned that Owner Crothers was still in the restaurant, enjoying a good meal, good health. The newsgatherer departed. A few minutes later...
...Indiana one man said: "If Harrison's mayor [of Chicago] I'm going to the Fair, but I'm going to wear nothin' but tights and carry a knife." MacMonnies molded a statue; George Pullman put up cigar money; the Fair was held. The day it closed Mayor Harrison got three lead shots in his middle and died...