Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British Delegation's Concepts. 1) Britain to retain actual naval supremacy, while seeming to grant the U. S. equality with herself in a shrewdly-worded treaty; 2) The Coolidge Administration expected by the British to accept this treaty, so drawn as to make good political capital in the U. S. by giving the impression that a Coolidge victory had been won at Geneva; 3) The essence of this subterfuge to be twofold: a) That the U. S. and Britain should each be allowed to build 600,000 tons of cruisers (that is to say, a great many more than...
...newspapers frankly condoned the murder. At Vilna, Poland, home city of Murderer Kovenko, the White Russian newspaper Novaia Rossia appealed for contributions wherewith to retain able defense attorneys in his behalf. Immediately the Polish Government suppressed Novaia Rossia, placed the editor in jail. In London Lord Rothermere's violently anti-red Evening News declared: "The slain man (Vojkov) signed the death warrants of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial family. By Vojkov's assassination at the hand of a royalist, retribution has come to one of the chief perpetrators of one of the foulest murders in history...
Eleanora Ambrose (dancing partner and widow of Maurice Mouvet) returned to the U. S. last week, told reporters that her husband made two requests of her before he died: 1) that she "be good"; 2) that she retain his name in all her professional engagements...
...beginning to set up state colleges upon the same bases and with the same objects as private colleges? Public institutions, even though practical, may well carry the burden of vindicating scientific knowledge and careful study as an approach to everyday professional and industrial tasks. And private institutions may retain the task they have long ago assumed and steadily followed, that of proving to those who will attend the proof, that the knowledge of one thing in its truest light involves knowing many things, and may retain, as its province likewise, the duty of giving asylum to the speculative mind...
Ismet, a man of medium build, hard, clad in a tight uniform bespread with medals, seemed last week to retain unaltered the Prussian severity which he acquired some 20 years ago as a cadet at Potsdam. He is now Premier of the Turkish Republic, after fighting through the World War, repeatedly decorated by Wilhelm II for his often victorious services to the Central Powers. Today his hair is growing white, but his eyes are still a keen, steel grey; and, still deaf, he continues to play the little trick of seeming deafer than he is when that suits his purpose...