Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this post visited Egypt, India and Java to observe the methods of dealing with native populations presenting a mixture of races and beliefs, in many ways a more delicate and difficult undertaking than the problem in Cuba. He was here conspicuously successful. From 'a slave-holding, polygamous, head-hunting land' he developed a community largely self governing. In 1905 he was commander in chief of the American forces in the Philippines. He returned to the United States. in 1908 and served as commander of the Department of the East at Governors Island, as special ambassador to the Argentine...
...Democrats cannot successfully challenge the Republican claim to superior administrative ability, they can honestly claim that except for the brief period when the party organization had become a chattel of the slave-holding oligarchy the Democratic Party has been the great champion of individual rights and of the liberties of the people. It is essentially the party of the Bill of Rights and of the constitutional guarantees of freedom, the uncompromising assertion of which was never more needed than it is today...
...Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913, disapproved by Austria, who believed that first Turkey and then Bulgaria would win, gave Serbia greatly increased territory and prestige, and its was particularly worth recalling that all Jugo-Slave turned toward her. Austria-Hungary felt herself endangered with the menace of the story of the liberation of Italy all over again and determined to prevent it. Then followed the murder of Ferdinand, although he was a friend of the Jugo-Slave, and the beginning of the World War. Swiftly sketching the invasion of Serbia and its conquest, the pact of Corfu, July...