Word: paragraph
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fact remains, however, that Jenkins has received very bad treatment. He was arrested because he was caught with some bandits whom he swore had kidnapped him. As he was a consular agent, of the United States, the Mexican central government has the right to intervene in his behalf. Paragraph VI of Article 104 of the Mexican Constitution promulgated in February, 1917, expressly states that the Mexican federal tribunals shall take cognizance of all cases concerning diplomatic agents and consular officers. The refusal of the Carranza government to interfere can mean only one thing--an international break with the United States...
...statement was called forth by the severe condemnation by Senator Borah of President Lowell's remarks on Washington's farewell address and on the policies of the founders of the Union. The senator failed to find a "single patriotic paragraph or a single appeal for American institutions or the American systemic of government" in all the literature distributed by the League to Enforce Peace...
With the publication of the first number of the new "Review", however, we discover a real prospect of a constructive intellectual paper, which appreciates the true meaning of the words "liberal", and "conservative." A glance at the first paragraph of this new periodical's program fills us with a new hope and belief. To quote...
...draw are that students are after all somewhat interested in the training they get, and that the cruel undergraduate, though he may ride an instructor to death in the classroom, is human enough not to want the poor fellow's children to die in a garret. The last paragraph is perhaps out of place. "At Oxford," said the immortal master of Balliol, "not even the youngest of us is infallible...
...Reports will be submitted to this office with the least practicable delay, and not later than April 28th, showing the number under each class as given in third paragraph above...