Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accustomed to let them pass in silence. But these errors by famed Mr. Sullivan were too flagrant to endure. To the New York Times he wrote hotly: "We note an astonishing error in the mere statement of bald facts. President Wilson's term did not end until March...
...Oklahoma Senate, officially but not individually, declined to continue the embarrassment of Governor Henry Simpson Johnston when it voted, 26 to 23, to table a resolution demanding the dismissal of Mrs. O. O. Hammonds, executive secretary and confidential adviser of the Governor (TIME, March 7). Talk, however, still comes out of Oklahoma concerning the Governor's matronly secretary with whom he is said to plumb spiritualism, occultism, Rosicrusianism. The latest report is that she calls the Democratic State Chairman her errand boy. Meanwhile her husband, Dr. Hammonds, churchgoer from Okmulgee, enjoys pay as State Commissioner of Health...
...Voted down 271 to 146 a Liberal motion to reduce the salary of Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. This technical procedure was intended as a motion of censure against the Cabinet for dispatching its recent intemperate and threatening note to Soviet Russia (TIME, March 7). Paradoxically, Sir Austen, although he signed the vote as Foreign Secretary, was its chief opponent in the Cabinet...
Then referring to the recent British note of protest and warning to Russia (TIME, March 7) he concluded: "It is not Britain who should have protested to us about anti-British propaganda, but we who should have protested to Britain about her anti-Soviet propaganda. The note complained that the Soviet press had caricatured Sir Austen Chamberlain as applauding the hanging of Lithuanian Communists. I say that he not only applauded, but also greased the ropes...
...This was the man and these were the words which came as unheralded as though a comet had struck Manhattan and dissipated far and wide its gaseous tail. Where does the four-month Kerensky regime fit into the 'ten years elapsed since Nicholas II signed his abdication on March 15, 1917? Significant years...