Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their behalf and have apparently succeeded in forging the issue. Time and again President Calles has declared that the new land laws are in no way retroactive an will affect only future property holdings. Nevertheless the State Department has continued to write notes bordering on the insulting to our neighbor beyond the Rio Grande. Apparently then, the State Department is acting in the interests of further economic penetration and expansion by American interests, and this is what is meant by threatened destruction of American business...
...remaining calm because they know that Mussolini is a lunatic who must be humored. . . . Italy is under a worse despot today than in the time of Nero. . . . Conditions are worse than in Soviet Russia. A little group is prison warden for the nation. Each man spies upon his neighbor and nowhere is there security . . . . Mussolini will suffer the destiny to which he is doomed...
...piety saved him," said a neighbor...
...Another neighbor grunted, scowled. "So would a framed picture of Buffalo Bill. Glass, though lightning can smash it, don't conduct el'ctric...
...safe to steal some of their mother's rice-powder? Mrs. Ellison was out laundering at a neighbor's house. Monk got the powder and sprinkled it upon the "daid corpse's" face. Then, whoopIng, he led his followers back to the yard. In 15 minutes Mrs. Ellison came in and laid her clean clothes down on a chair. What she saw on the floor gave her a slight start, but her nerves were good; she chuckled and moved nearer. As she bent over the "corpse" uncertainty replaced the laughter in her generous face; her hand, moving...