Word: nationales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless the pale, weak man at Sandringham is glad that he is no Dictator. But doubtless, too, he was pleased by Sir George's fulsome conclusion: "We English are monarchical to our marrow, and because of this national instinct we can smile smugly at Communist vaporings."
"Do you know, I offered jobs to Sir Henry Thornton, President of the Canadian National Railways, and to E. W. Beatty, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, to come over here to reorganize our railways for us, but of course I made it plain that it was only a joke...
Today the official engine of execution at Havana is the garrote, a strangling machine. Up to four years ago Cuba's garrote reposed in the National Museum, shuddered at by thrill-seekers as a barbarous relic of the old Spanish regime. Then in 1925 it was restored to use...
First and most vehement of the subsequent protests was made to the Vestry of St. Matthew's Church by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. An open letter said: "If this statement has the sanction of the Vestry of St. Matthew's, it condemns the...
Officers were announced as Mr. Rand, president, Ernest Stauffen Jr., chairman of the board of directors, Harral S. Tenney, vice president. Banker Stauffen, enthusiastic, has been a prime mover in group banking, was perhaps principal factor in formation of Marine Midland Corp. But unlike Banker Rand, Mr. Stauffen did not...