Word: regain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zogu, the Jugoslav-born President of Albania, called to the Premiership Cena Bey, also a Jugoslav by birth. The Greek faction, headed by onetime (June-Dec. 1923) Premier Bishop Fan Stylian Noli (now exiled in Italy), were reported last week to be seeking aid from Premier Mussolini wherewith to regain control of Albania and oust therefrom the Jugoslavs...
...political question of very recent development in Washington. President Coolidge, presumably because of the defeat of a number of Republican candidates in the recent senatorial elections, issued on November 6 a proposal for a tax rebate. The Democratic party, sensing that the proposition was a Republican attempt to regain popularity among the tax-payers, has assailed it vigorously...
Last week word got about that William Lorimer had returned quietly to Chicago from the Republic of Colombia where he had proposed to develop that nation's resources with his Colombia-American Syndicate. Incidentally, he hoped to regain his own fortunes. His venture had failed. Perhaps word of his La Salle Street Bank had been whispered in Colombia, and the wary Latin-Americans had demanded cash in advance...
Premier Poincaré journeyed last week to Alsace-Lorraine, the "lost provinces" which his militant patriotism did so much to regain for France. Entering many a schoolroom he sat down quietly beside the teacher, listened while children cradled in German struggled to recite in French. M. Poincaré then requested the children to recite in German and noted carefully the difference in their proficiency. Said he, at Metz: "The children grow each year more proficient in our beautiful tongue. The difference since my last visit two years ago is most marked...
...brother nation under the protection of the British Empire. The Mosquito kings, thus formally established in their throne, ruled until 1894 a nation of 8000 Indians, never realizing that their dynasty was the fictitious product of English statecraft. Even recently, Hendy, a Mosquito Pretender, plotted in utter seriousness to regain the realm of his ancestors...