Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Franco-American commissions.š the President chose Senators Lenroot of Wisconsin and Underwood of Alabama, respectively, to succeed the late Senator Gray of Delaware and the late one-time (1895-97) Secretary of State Richard Olney. ¶ "For a number of years it has been our custom as a nation to observe as National Fire Prevention Week, the week in which the anniversary of the great Chicago fire of 1871 occurs." Let custom continue, proclaimed the President, beginning October 9. ¶ Mrs. Coolidge went forth into the marts of fashion and bought $1,000 worth of gowns. The sales persons...
Peace. The feature of the week was the passing, with every Nation voting "yes," of the Polish proposal for outlawing aggressive warfare (TIME, Sept. 19). The adopted resolution declared: "all wars of aggression are and always shall be prohibited, and that every pacific means must be employed to settle disputes of every description which may arise between states...
...Irish Free State was the arena of a nation-wide battle. The weapons were ballot papers, with an odd revolver and a shillalah or two for emphasis; political armies fought for the control of the Dublin executive machinery...
...same moment that war is proclaimed giant fleets of airplanes, airships and U-boats will be informed by wireless. Merchantmen will be destroyed immediately and a nation unprepared for war will be exterminated within 48 hours. On land and sea new and pernicious gases and explosives, unknown in Germany, will be employed and annihilate the weaker nations within a moment...
Revelry pokes with ruthless imagination into the secret misfortunes of a President of the U. S. whom theatre-goers found it easy to think of as Warren Gamaliel Harding. The audience sees President "Easy" Markham (Actor Berton Churchill) as a stately tool of politicians who run the nation from a poker table stuck away in a private nook known as "the crow's nest." Because of his unwholesome faith in these cronies, he allows the White House to degenerate into what one of the characters described as an automat ("Because when you want to take something out, you just...