Word: renews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...renew your attention to an interesting historical fact which deserves consideration by the American people? During the period since the Civil War the administration of President Johnson was marked by impeachment proceedings against the President himself; the administration of President Grant was marred by grave scandals reaching into the Cabinet itself; the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur were filled with such serious patronage scandals that civil service reform was forced through by an indignant country; the administration of President McKinley saw the graft and rottenness of the War Department and other bureaus during and following...
Unless the Peruvian Government or the Guaranty Trust Co. cares to issue further statements, the charges of President Leguia will be dropped without official action by Washington. The State Department hopes, however, that Senor Leguia will not renew his protest as, in that event, the U. S. Government would be obliged to issue a reply to his allegations...
Divorced. Charles Holland Duell, son of the late Judge Charles H. Duell of the U. S. Court of Appeals, and cousin of Elihu Root, by Mrs. Lillian Tucker Duell, onetime actress. She charged that he had refused to renew marital relations. It was rumored that he would marry Miss Lillian Gish, cinema actress...
...Major General Henry T. Allen, former commander of the Army of Occupation in Germany, told of the pressure which will soon be exerted to force emigration from Great Britain and Germany. "It is inevitable that Germany must renew her exportation of human beings as she did in the 80's . . ." ¶ A silk manufacturer contributed these phrases: "We have a tremendous reservoir of labor in this country. We used to say, 'Let George do it.' Now we say, 'Let Giovanni do it.' We can do it ourselves. Those who demand an unlimited labor supply have...
...public knowledge. Of these the book may afford a fairly useful summary, but it does not fulfill the promise on the wrapper of making sensational disclosures. He does, to be sure, bring out the fact that Lenin and Trotsky offered to reject the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and renew the war against Germany, and offer which, for as yet unexplained motives, was not taken up by the Allies; but this is hardly news. Likewise his account of the German occupation of the Ukraine, and of the Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia is good but not novel; and the same...