Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly after Mr. Baker was made Secretary of War, the President decided to send an expedition into Mexico to operate against Villa who had raided Columbus, N. Mex. This was one of the first serious problems Mr. Baker had to meet. He called a conference in his office in which...
The public domain once consisted of all U. S. land outside the 13 original States and Texas. Free land was the great natural resource upon which the new country was built. For generations it served as a prime political issue. In 1836 Henry Clay, then a U. S. Senator from...
No notice was taken of Dr. Hu's criticism of living Chinese statesmen. For example, he had recalled in Crescent Moon that President Chiang Kaishek, after conquering all China, has not yet kept his promise to give Chinese citizens a Bill of Rights. That telling criticism was ignored. Instead the...
Exactly what did he intend to do, they asked, about the Schutzbund-Heimwehr riots? Vienna, they pointed out, is an oversized city in an undersized country. She needs the tourist trade to exist. Vienna makes and sells fine porcelain, furniture, pearl buttons, meerschaum pipes, leather goods, luggage,* furs, jewelry. The...
Sousa's March. Lieut.-Commander John Philip Sousa & Band opened their 37th season with a concert on Atlantic City's steel pier. For ten weeks they will tour the country, beginning at the dedication of Foshay Tower in Minneapolis. Bandmaster Sousa, 74, has swung his baton a half...