Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Labor. The Labor manifesto, which is entitled Labor's Appeal to the People, reviews what the Government has done for peace, housing, education, agriculture, unemployment.* Then, under a paragraph called "What the Liberals and Tories have combined to stop,"a list of bills introduced or which were about to be introduced are cited, chief of which...
...French plays produced in this country," said M. Perrin, "are by no means exact translations of the plays as they are written. A French play should be translated word for word and paragraph for paragraph if it is to be shown here. So many producers try to put American phrases and touches in the plot to please the audiences, and as a result it is neither French drama nor American drama. It is nothing more than French steak with American gravy...
However, the Opposition were quick to find a bug in the healing ointment. There were certain modifications. Paragraph 7 stated that membership in the militia would be open to all Italian subjects between the ages of 17 and 50 who have the necessary "physical, moral and political" qualifications. Paragraph 11 stated, in part, that the militia "will be employed for those duties which he [presumably the King] will consider both in the Kingdom of Italy and in the colonies...
Covenant. There was adopted a resolution calling for the appointment of a committee of jurists to interpret Paragraph 5, Article 4 of the League Covenant with a view to determining the rights of members to sit on the Council when matters affecting their interests are being discussed...
...Lansing-Ishii agreement, said to have been drawn up by Viscount Ishii and President Wilson in 1917, was to affirm the principle of the Open Door in China. A paragraph, however, recognized Japan's "paramount interest"?a part which led the Japanese to suppose erroneously that the U. S. was intent upon abandoning her interest in the Far East...