Word: manifestoed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American and foreign financiers and concessionaires. With them should be classed such a modern Marco Polo as Fan Noli '12 that strange Bishop, General, ex-Premier, soldier of fortune and scholar of Albania. Yesterday's Associated Press dispatches carry the news that he has originated and signed a Bolshevist manifesto, which may embroil the Balkans in one of their periodic convulsions. But what is seldom mentioned in such dispatches is the fact that he has for more than a decadated the struggle of a harassed and impoverished country for peace and freedom, that he has completed the first translation...
...many signing, said Mr. O'Shea, one was State Senator Calvin Coolidge. Mr. O'Shea added that the signatures were made in duplicate, that one copy went to Washington, that he retained the other. Thus he claimed to possess President Coolidge's signature to a no-third-term manifesto, said he would produce it "at the proper time...
Signer Mussolini toyed last week with the supposedly defunct Montenegrin question, permitted Fascist editors to slap into bold type a manifesto blazoned at Rome by the Royalist Montenegrin Committee for National Defense. The Committee, a dwindling palace clique, called upon Montenegrins to rise against Jugoslavia* and restore King (Pretender) Michael of Montenegro. The Jugoslav press, just now hypersensitive to Italian war scares, grew promptly flurried lest Il Duce follow up his Albanian treaty thrust into the Balkans (TIME, Dec. 13) by trying to restore the independence and throne of Montenegro...
Side by side with this attack on the Conservative element, agitation developed last week to expel foreign workers from France and thus " leave more work for Frenchmen. Fulminating upon this point the potent French League of the Rights of Man, a radical organization, issued a manifesto last week...
...Academy of Fine Arts, famous because it snubbed Hermann Sudermann* by not asking him to become a member of its new literature department, and was snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed by such "advanced" writers as Georg Kaiser, Bernhard Kellerman, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann. Inverse Income Tax. Signor Mattia Battistini, tolerably good Italian baritone, appealed to the tax collector of Duisburg (Rhineland) last week, to be classified as a "well-known singer," and deposed under oath: "My successful career...