Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anti-Wilsonite. "Independent" describes him better than "Republican". He acknowledged "a heavy responsibility" as he entrained last week for Washington to present his credentials and take a seat which, though it will be across the aisle from where Senator Jones used to sit, and though the new name on the roll-call will come right after Republican-leader Curtis, will make the new Republican majority (47* to 46 to 1) more stenographic than actual. If Senator Cutting takes kindly to the Senate and wants to stay there he will have to campaign for re-election next November...
Despite their name, the Ethiopians do not consider themselves racially homogeneous with aboriginal Africa. Color varies In Ethiopia, from a pale olive among the northern inhabitants, through deep brown in the central part of the Kingdom to chocolate tints and true black in the farthest south. Ras Taffari, prince regent, is a black southerner but of the special superior blackness of the province of Shoa. Slim, short, wiry, Prince Ras Taffari considers himself super-Negroid...
...which he had been sentenced to jail was merely technical. In such circumstances the arrest had to be nonviolent. M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe solved his problem by appearing in impeccable full dress at the head of irresistible forces of police and beseeching M. Daudet "in the name of France" to give himself up. Thus, Daudet could and did surrender without losing face...
...least curious fact concerning the Signora Rachele Mussolini is that her very name is unmentioned in the sole authorized biography of Il Duce, a volume of 352 pages in which space is found to depict several mistresses. Thus this great lady is the ideal Italian type of completely self-effacing signora pòr bene-a phrase which cloaks her with all the matronly virtues and proclaims that, as befits Caesar's wife, she is transcendently above suspicion...
Detroit Banks. People's Wayne County Bank is the consolidation name of People's State Bank and Wayne County & Home Savings Bank; total resources...