Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comedy of misintention. When Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews laid it upon Mr. Mellon's desk; when Mr. Mellon nodded his head and sent it to the President; when the President looked down at the routine sheet before him and affixed his signature?none of them expected that the little sheet of paper would arouse attention, much less controversy. For two weeks thereafter the little sheet lay around somewhere without exciting any interest, and then quite casually some prohibition officer handed it to the press for publication. This is the uneventful prenatal history of the controversy over...
...obvious that none of these amendments prohibited private individuals from entering into contracts respecting the control and disposition of their own property, and there is no color whatever for the contention that they rendered the indenture void...
...days before the elections, Mr. Streit set out by motor from Bucharest with three electioneering Opposition candidates. Since the candidates entertained no hopes of being allowed to hold or address a meeting, they carried cards to be thrown among their constituents. As almost none of these constituents could read, the cards were imprinted with a circle: the emblem of the United National Peasant Parties It was hoped that if a sufficient number of cards could be distributed, the peasant voters might recognize the circle-symbol when they saw it again on their ballots...
...benevolent" British Protectorate over Egypt was terminated in 1922 and Egypt declared an "independent sovereign state." None the less Lord Lloyd functions as British High Commissioner to Egypt, and an unobtrusive but efficient British Army of Occupation "protects" such areas of vital interest to Britain as the Suez Canal...
...prepared to go in swimming. Her bathing suit had a white edging around the armholes. It was a one-piece suit with the pretense of a short skirt. The trunks came down almost to her knees. Her legs that day were vague. Some reports have her wearing stockings, others none. Her followers-those that pray night and day in the Prayer Tower of her Angelus Temple, those who have seen her in her white nurse's uniform exhorting them, those who have heard her over her KFSG radio station-have been hunting for her incessantly. Most believe her drowned...