Word: prot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and talked for two and a half hours from a prepared memorandum. Mexico is fomenting the Liberal revolution in Nicaragua which is trying to overthrow the U. S.'s protégé, President Diaz; and behind Mexico are the Bolshevists of Russia, said Mr. Kellogg. He produced documents: 1) a resolution of the Red International of Trade Unions in Moscow, appealing to "the toilers of Latin America"; 2) a speech by an unnamed representative of the American Communist Party, urging his fellows...
...more pertinent reason for Rear Admiral Latimer's presence was the fact that President Diaz's forces had been defeated by the Liberals. After all, if the U. S. is going to have a protégé in Nicaragua, it might as well protect him by armed intervention...
Tilden, Champion William T. Tilden II lolled through an easy match against Arnold W. Jones of Yale, to take the Men's Rhode Island Championship. Paired with his favorite protége, A. L. ("Sandy") Weiner, he won the men's doubles, defeating S. Howard Voshell and Alfred Chapin...
...Nassau. In front of the huge, garish Nassau Country Club at Glen Cove, L. I., William T. Tilden II played against a protégé of his, slender A. H. Chapin Jr., for the Nassau Challenge Cup. Protégé Chapin took four games in the first set. Then Tilden, remembering that youth will be served, began to serve cannonballs, to cut, chop, drive, until many thought that Chapin would cripple himself in his wild nourishes at mocking tennis balls. Tilden won the next 15 games, the match...
...Mason, an Elk, an Odd Fellow, a Baptist, a Democrat. For over ten years he has been Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers. He is quiet and rather retiring. His policy is nearer to that of Mr. Gompers than is that of Mr. Woll, Mr. Gompers' own protÉgÉ. He does not favor a third party or labor party. He has been active against communist propaganda and the extreme radicals in the labor movement. He has leaned to the progressive group in promotion of a Workers' Educational Bureau and in support of Government ownership...