Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subscriber I am writing to correct a statement made in your issue of Dec. 10, page 59, wherein you state that the Prairie...
Subordinate to the State Council of 16 are the five Yuans or Divisional Councils. The first of these, the Executive Council, is the Cabinet, comprising 10 ministries: War, Interior, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture and Mining, Industry, Commerce and Labor, Education, Communications, Railways, Health...
Since the collapse of the Empire, barely 40 years ago, the new United States of Brazil have been easily the most friendly of South American republics toward the United States of North America. Generally speaking Brazilians are proud and pleased that their Constitution, "States Rights," Congress, Cabinet, Vice-Presidency, and Presidency are all cut and fitted to the mode of Washington. Only such trifling differences exist as that each Brazilian state is represented by three Senators instead of the Washingtonian two. All too few North American school children have been taught the historic words wherewith Brazil followed the U.S. into...
...With these words, the secretary of Edgar Wallace endeavored to discourage a telephonic caller who immediately replied, "Very well-I will hold the wire until he finishes it." Such is the reputation for alacrity in composition of the playwright-novelist-journalist who keeps London and England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying comparatively comic snitches here and there, Author Wallace's sprig of grue was sufficiently funny...
Engaged. Helen Train, daughter of Author Arthur Cheney Train (Mr. Tutt stories) of Manhattan & Bar Harbor; to Charles Dewey Hilles Jr., Manhattan lawyer, son of the potent New York State Republican...