Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rewards from his Chief, Abd-el-Krim. The visits are repeated nightly; and if kind words fail, threats are used, and occasionally an assassination is committed to terrorize the petty chieftains into submission. The Valley of the Wergha, along which the fighting is taking place, is noted for its rich iron deposits; and in the views of some the war is in reality for their possession, Abd-el-Krim supposedly being under the thumb of Germany, who has promised to import all the ores which the Riff chief can deliver...
...Fundamentalists attacked Dr. Fosdick and John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (pillar of the Park Avenue Church), as well as Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin, pastor of the church. Dr. Woelfkin will retire when Dr. Fosdick assumes the pastorate next January, but the question was of unseating the pastor because of his rich parishioner (Rockefeller) and his prospective successor. The Fundementalists in caucuses proposed "a continent-wide war to emancipate the Baptist denomination from the deathlike grip of the powerful combination of Mammon and Modernism," and asked: "Shall the Baptist denomination become the religious department of the Standard Oil Company...
More than two years have rolled by since the French stirred the world to uneasiness by marching into the rich Ruhr territory to collect by armed force the reparations which Germany failed voluntarily...
...respectable nation. You may be sure Germans will always receive protection of their interests but not privileges, as no privileges exist in Mexico; guarantees and protection exist. The German colony is not considered a foreign colony but as a brother, as Germans do not come to Mexico to get rich but to join with us. Germans here have shared our sorrows...
...virtual control of foreign markets by U. S. cinema producers is bearing rich fruit in constantly increasing exports of U. S.-made films...