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...same spirit, he relentlessly governed the Canary Islands in the name of Spain, and was rewarded by being created the Marqués of Teneriffe. His immediate past has been spent very largely amid heated politico-military squabbles, which have enlivened his existence as a fashionable Spanish grandee...
...very statement of this fundamental objection refutes its importance. To give advice on legal affairs or politico-legal affairs to the League or to any government is in itself not contrary to the primary purpose of the court: to aid in the establishment of world peace. The old Hague Tribunal to which Senator Borah can hardly object on principal went almost this far, and should certainly have gone that...
...implicated either as aggressors or defenders. Bombs, bottles and knives were thrown, bullets were fired, whips cracked as did bludgeons over heads, blood flowed and angry cries rent the air. Yet all was comparatively quiet. It was that the Opposition press had been effectually gagged; that a hundred questionable politico-social clubs had been closed: that the urban and rural branches of the Italia Libera Association, of which General Peppino Garibaldi is head, were shut down; that a number of subversive organizations had been rooted out; that people had been terrified by many hundreds of domiciliary searches made by rowdy...
...Editor of the North American Review (1873-76), he purchased the first article ever sold by Woodrow Wilson, then a Princeton undergraduate. Originally, these two were strongly attracted intellectually; but their interest in each other ripened, in more mature years, into one of the notable politico-personal antagonisms of their generation...
Standing on the south portico of the White House, Mr. Coolidge also spoke, politico-officially, to a delegation of business men representing 47 trades. This time he said: "This is a business country ... it wants a business Government...