Word: region
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Floods in the region of the famed Lena Gold Fields engulfed 70 villages, last week, raced nearer and nearer to the gold fields...
...were posted at switches and trestles. Some 700 American Legion men were mobilized for guard duty at stations. No spectator was allowed to approach within 300 yards of the train when it stopped. Dozens of persons suspected of discontent about Labor's condition were temporarily deported from the region. Everything was prearranged so carefully that almost nothing happened to remember the event by. Yet it was an historic event...
...less ponderable matter, especially when the bolter is out of office. Mr. Owen, part Cherokee Indian, is mostly Virginia patrician. He was born and educated in Virginia. He went to Oklahoma, with which State his name has long been connected, when he was still young and the region was a Territory. He grew potent, first as an Indian agent, then as one of Oklahoma's first U. S. Senators (1907-25). As a member of the Senate Finance Committee he helped frame the Federal Reserve and Farm Loan Acts. His horizon was widened by his experience on the Senate...
...word comrade. Among the Fascisti it means every man for himself." Copied from Pravda and reprinted by hundreds of provincial papers was a ribald, satanic poem by Comrade Vladimir Myakofski, entitled Cross and Champagne. Based on the undisputed facts that General Nobile dropped upon the North Polar region a large cross blessed by the Pope and carried a supply of champagne in which to toast this event, the poem soars into the very zenith of satiric sacrilege and "Champagne Popery."* Coldly, factually the Soviet press service Tass presented details on the basis of which cannibalism might be imputed to Captains...
...original defendants were 49 Russians and 3 Germans. The Russians were charged with High Treason and all defendants with conspiracy to sabotage (disablement) of the vital coal mines in the region...