Word: section
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lease their property. Owners of the building in which the Defense Committee had offices caused a stout joist to be nailed in the building's doorway so that no coffin might be carried in. The Defense Committee had to be content with a small mortuary chapel in the Italian section of Boston. The mortician, an artist in his way, wanted to dress the bodies in dinner jackets, but the Defense Committee said no, let them lie in their plain laboring-men's Sunday best?black cloth suits, black four-in-hand ties, un- comfortable black shoes. Let the coffins...
Dame Rachel Crowdy, Chief of Social Questions and Opium Traffic Section of the League of Nations, was driving home in her Ford car. The latter "was promptly suspected...
Fianna Fail: This party contains the other section of the original Sinn Fein party-those that refused to accept the Anglo-Irish treaty- and is led by Eamon de Valera. It is the principal Republican group in the Free State. Until a fortnight ago it steadfastly refused to enter the Dail unless the oath of allegiance to King George were removed. It recanted from this stand, however, and took the oath as "a matter of form (TIME...
...divorce suits will be heard by a special section of the Fourth Civil Tribunal, presided over by Rieul Paisant, expert on international and U. S. state laws, who speaks English comme un Anglais. Thorough examination of all applications is to result under the new regime and particular attention is to be paid to the method of establishing residence and the possibility of collusion between the litigants...
Perusers of the Sunday New York Herald Tribune a fortnight ago found in its rotogravure section a portrait that showed an alert, spruce countenance, small but with a precise magnificence in its well-brushed and steel-grey beard. It reminded them of a someone they knew, some face they had often seen before. When they perused the caption, Charles Evans Hughes' prize-winning Schnauzer, with Miss Christine Charles at the Southampton Dog Show, they began to snicker. While it was possible (if unlikely) that famed Charles Evans Hughes had turned dog fancier, it was an inconceivable as well...