Word: referes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assembly was opened by the temporary President, Mr. Paul Hymans, Foreign Minister of Belgium, who in the course of an eloquent address, was thought to refer to the U. S. when he said...
...headlines and news they are "scrupulously fair" and "rigidly nonpartisan" and "on the other hand, certain hidebound Republican organs give to many of their dispatches a heavy Coolidge flavor and lose no chance to place the Davis candidacy in a bad light." This is hyperbole. These "hidebound Republican organs" refer chiefly to Frank Munsey's Sun, Ogden Reid's Pier Herald-Tribune, and Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' Post. In the degree of news partisanship shown there is probably little difference between these three papers and the "rigidly nonpartisan" World. Incidentally, the most virulently partisan paper...
...debauching along the Riviera (TIME, Mar. 10), His Majesty, Sultan Ahmad Shah, seventh sovereign of the Kajâr dynasty, lost his job. No longer did Persians refer to him as Shâhinshâh (King of Kings...
...been experiencing much opposition both within and without Parliament. Ever since the 70 Croatian Agrarians consented to sit in the Assembly, in April of this year, the old Premier's position has become more and more difficult, and it is not surprising that he has decided to refer the issues to the country, albeit reluctantly...
...will alienate the Opposition, which now supports him. In this way he could defer his dethronement, but sooner or later the Opposition would "get" him, as it has recently made plain it would do. The wisest course, but perhaps not safer than signing the bill, would be to refer the whole question to a referendum of the people, many of whom, however, would be incapable of expressing an intelligent opinion on the problem. But each moment of Royal indecision may be fatal; meanwhile, the Dynasty trembles...