Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curtis does not make policies; he unveils them. It is his business to sound out the opposition, plan a campaign, arrange a compromise if one is necessary, and muster the votes when the skies are stormy. As long ago as 1899 one can find him praised by the Topeka Mail and Breeze as a past master at the art of settling a dispute without an open quarrel. In that capacity he has been of inestimable service to successive Administrations. For he has what William Allen White calls "a blessed gift as a hand-shaker" and "the indefinable thing called charm...
...attended this course-private cooks from Manhattan, private cooks from out-of-own,*private cooks fresh from Germany & Hungary whose new mis-resses had ruled that they needed further drill. Housewives too attended-housewives of all grades, good ones who wished to excel, doubtful ones who wished to pass muster. They heard lectures in the New York City Town Hall (capacity 1,500). Miss Florence Brobeck supervised the cooks & housewives. She it is who prints each Sunday good advice on recipes, household appliances, marketing information, dietetics & child feeding, decorating & furnishing, restaurant service, etc., etc. She is chief of the famed...
...made Generals while fighting in the Philippine Insurrection, but as all of this came out of the Spanish War and the same men did it all, and all of it is called the "Spanish War" by most everyone, there was no other name to take. Our oath and muster ceremony include the words "To commemorate the memory of the Spanish War, the Insurrection on the Philippines and the China Relief Expedition." . . . Now if you really want to know what in a few years put the something in us, which would bring together 20,000 of the living from the original...
Possibly the Grand Duke and his followers could even muster-as Dictator Stalin claims-some 120,000 armed "Whites" to invade Russia. But how large is the Red Army which would oppose them? Latest figures place the Soviet Army peace strength at 260,000 men, with 850,000 reservists constantly under training. Thus "Reds" would outnumber "Whites...
Lausanne Treaty. The Senate failed by six votes to muster the two-thirds' majority necessary to ratify this treaty. The result: there is no peaceful relationship between the U. S. and Turkey except a temporary commercial modus vivendi...