Word: mens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...filibusterers last spring and subjected to indignities before being released (TIME, June 24), Queen Wilhelmina said with resolute wrath: "It is the purpose of my government to increase the number of our armed forces in Curacao!" At present the garrison of Willemstad, the Capital, consists of four officers, 59 men...
...With such folk as the Socialists we can only talk with whips in our hands!" shouted General Hess, a onetime Imperial Austrian Corps Commander, haranguing 1,500 Heimwehr at Waidhofen. "Steady, men! Keep your rifles at the ready!" warned the Socialist organ Arbeiter-Zeitung. "Wait until the Heimwehr attack. Then let them taste steel...
...seventh birthday of His Majesty Mihai I last fall, Rumanian officials announced that their boy king would not be educated by tutors as are most Royal men-children but would go to school. Democratic, but not too democratic, the school would be composed of 36 small boys specially chosen from Rumania's eight provinces. Presently the school was organized, photographs appeared in Rumania rotogravures of King Mihai studying geography with his jolly schoolmates, fust as suddenly, the school was disbanded. Last week an inquisitive Bucharest editor learned the reason for the rupture...
...Today the whole aspect has changed. A tremendous movement to educate the people is in full swing. Every educated man in China-and the number of these men is becoming legion-is feverishly doing his utmost to make his country into a great, modern world Power...
...that time Founder Norman Wait Harris had an office on Chicago's Clark St., three employes and $30,000. But he also had two ideas. First idea was to send salesmen out to sell bonds. In 1882 such procedure was regarded as undignified; Mr. Harris and his men were termed doorbell ringers. But Mr. Harris knew that he, small, new, obscure, would never prosper by waiting for investors to call upon him, so he rang the doorbells, sold the bonds, became ancestor of all bond salesmen since...