Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death of Maurice Bokanowski (TIME, Sept. 10). The Prime Minister significantly intimated last week that he will now have time to visit Berlin in connection with the momentous work of revising the Dawes Plan (TIME, Sept. 24, et seq.). When asked if he would also visit Washington to seek revision of the French debt, Lion Poincaré growled irritably but did not say no. French observers hailed suave, expert, experienced Senator Cheron as just the man to wangle the budget through Parliament by Christmas in the absence of his chief...
Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of the late famed hunter-President, sailed from Manhattan on the Homeric, with animals in mind. They plan to penetrate the unexplored lands along the Mekong River in Tibet, where, among other things, they will seek to capture a takin, rare ruminant, something like an antelope and something like a goat...
...milling crowd of several hundred quickly assembled around the Harvard speaker, V. R. Booth 21., who form his position of vantage in the back of an automobile witnessed the scenes of conflict for several minutes before missiles made him seek retirement...
...very hopeful because of the new interest in politics which men and women of our colleges are taking. The task of Socialism in America and in the world, is to build a party which will seek to control the necessities of our common life for the common good. We can use government in the service of the worker with hand and brain, to bring to us all plenty of peace and freedom. That will never be done by two parties belonging to the same set of interests. To correct this dangerous, undemocratic situation, is a challenge to your generation...
...into and report on the Salt Creek lease to Sinclair. Attorney General Sargent turned the matter over to Assistant Attorney General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan. The result was awaited attentively, not only by Senator Walsh, but by Senator Capper of Kansas. The latter, a faithful Republican, did not seek to embarrass the Administration, but there were potent oil men in Kansas who wanted to know what was what. Not the lease provocative feature of Oilman Sinclair's Salt Creek contract was that it was exceedingly bad business for the U. S. Prices had risen and Sinclair was getting...