Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much profit they have been making under the present law. The Democrats rushed forward in a body, the Republican irregulars following on their heels. Against them only the stoutest Republicans rushed in. The consumer-tariff forces seized Tax Reports Village by 51 votes to 27. With their communication road thus opened, prompt ly the Democrats despatched 200 ammunition wagons for supplies, 200 requests for the tax reports of different corporations. Position. It remained for the leaders to choose their positions on the field. Field Marshal Simmons offered to give battle first in the administrative provisions section along the barren ground...
There was also a report that Lord d'Abernon had arranged for a $200,000,000 private British loan to the Argentine Government for road building purposes. Both La Prensa and equally famed La Nation were skeptical of the constitutional right of Argentina's fanatically secretive President Hipolito Irigoyen to sign rich, special agreements without consulting the Argentine Congress. "Even members of the President's Cabinet," said La Nation indignantly, "knew absolutely nothing of what was afoot...
...began Messiah MacDonald quietly. Recalling that during his short previous term as Prime Minister in 1924 he sought to secure the peace of Europe by championing the Geneva Protocol (intended to "put teeth into the Covenant of the League"), he declared that "since 1924 we have started upon another road. The [Kellogg-Briand] Pact of Peace has been signed at Paris, and that pact is now the starting point of further work. ... To a certain extent the pact is still a castle in the air and the Assembly of the League is going to build up the foundations to support...
...contested ownership of some sows and pigs, lasted until 25 years ago when a mountain preacher brought about a peace agreement. Last year Tennis Hatfield, grandson of onetime leader "Devil Anse" Hatfield, offered his hand in friendship to James McCoy, and the two walked arm and arm down the road...
Thus gloomily intoned James William Crabtree, secretary of the National Education Association, to a little crowd of Nebraska farmers gathered last week in a grove, across the road from a one-room schoolhouse, the Fairview District School, near Elmwood. The occasion: the school was 50 years old. Fifty years ago Educator Crabtree punched cattle in the dusty buffalo-grass outside the grove; 46 years ago he caned culprits, taught lessons in the schoolhouse...