Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well qualified for that position as I would be for leader of the angelic choir." Last week Mr. Reed sought to extend his fame as an inquisitor, introduced in the Senate a resolution which would allow his committee to investigate all 1926 Senatorial elections during the recess of Congress (March to December). In the debate that followed, Senator Robinson of Indiana, Republican "yes" man, opened a vehement attack on Mr. Reed. "The Indiana investigation of Mr. Reed," said Mr. Robinson, "degenerated into a garbage wagon with the venerable Senator from Missouri in the front seat. . . . I recognize the publicity advantages...
Described as "mystic, intransigeant, impetuous," Dr. Yanguas has stood so firmly on the letter of Spain's international rights that: 1) Spain quit the League of Nations after making politically impossible demands for a Permanent League Council Seat (TIME, March 29, 1926 et seq.); 2) In Paris, last week, a secret Franco-Spanish parley concerning Morocco broke down after prolonged negotiations...
...General Li Pao-chang, Shanghai Commissioner of Defense, continued his attempts to break the general strike (TIME, Feb. 28) by ordering soldiers to march about the streets, cutting off the heads of alleged strikers and setting up these gory warnings upon poles...
...territory in dispute between Chile and Peru for three generations. Since the Harding Administration the U. S. has sought to mediate, but the recent Chile-U.S.-Peruvian conference upon Tacna-Arica came to an abortive end ( TIME, March 16, 1925 to June...
...last week the cadets of Urban Military Academy (Hollywood), rose as usual from dinner, began to march out. Jackie Coogan, 12, cinema boy, now a cadet, seized a pepper pot, threw pepper at one Brin of Bjorkman. For this, he was demoted from rank of corporal to private...