Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican state of Iowa will have no regular Republican in the Senate after next March, but instead will have Senator Steck (Democrat) and Senators Brookhart or Claude Porter (who carried off the Democratic nomination in the primary); the veteran Senator Cummins will retire after 18 years in the Senate...
Senator Underwood of Alabama (a Kentuckian by birth), one of the abler men of his party, "sound and conservative," who is serving his final term in the Senate, having announced that he will retire next March, had been pressing for an amendment to the Senate rules such as has been favored by Vice President Dawes-an amendment which would require a vote on revenue and appropriation bills to be taken and debate to be shut off by majority petition, so that bills may not be talked to death by a vociferous minority...
...unprecedented "majority of enemies." (TIME, June 7.) Though a member of the Republican Socialist party, M. Briand found himself supported by the Right (including even the ultra-reactionary Royalists) in his efforts to save the franc; while the Left majority which confirmed his Cabinet in office (TIME, March 29) deserted him, and its leaders charged that he was placing France at the mercy of bloodsucking international financiers...
...Appointed Ambassador to the U. S. (TIME, March 3, 1923), Masanao Hanihara, moonfaced, perpetually smiling, became irksome to Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, by championing with great persistence the rights of Nippon. While the Immigration Bill was pending before the Senate (TIME, April 28, 1924, CONGRESS), Ambassador Hanihara, an experienced diplomat, but goaded to extremities by the Senate's anti-Japanese predilections, staked all upon a "diplomatic threat" to the Secretary of State that "grave consequences" might follow the enactment of the Japanese exclusion clause of the bill. The Senate, reacting violently and negatively to the Hanihara note...
...rumbles of the conflict which started in March over the admission of Germany, to a permanent seat on the council are even now disturbing the Geneva organization. Spain and Brazil remain firm in their threat to resign if they are not awarded permanent seats...