Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dictator Stalin, scorning to toy even rhetorically with such questions as "Shall we turn back?" outlined a forward looking four-year program. Keynotes: 1) Larger importations of tractors and farm machinery; 2) Devotion of huge State grain farms to the sole purpose of producing an exportable surplus; 3) Education of the peasants to rotate crops and produce a surplus even above full-to-bursting tummy needs; 4) Speeding up of production by urban workers of goods desired by the peasants but not yet available to them in quantities or at prices sufficiently tempting to seduce canny husbandmen into raising...
Precedent demands that Queen Wilhelmina shall inaugurate the final matches, which will come in early August. Never, since the Olympiad was revived at Athens in 1896, has the Head of any State which has been host*to the Olympians refused to honor them. But last week Queen Wilhelmina voiced the equivalent of a refusal. Firm, logical, pious, she declared her intention of spending a two-months' holiday in Scandinavia. Prudent, she will leave behind to inaugurate the godless Olympiad, her useful Prince Consort, Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin...
...General Obregon or previously. The core of the quarrel is President Calles' enforcement decree of July 19, 1926, authorizing the police to prevent priests from officiating until they register with the Mexican authorities. Straightway this decree was stigmatized by the Mexican Episcopate as an implied setting of the State above the Pope, and all Roman Catholic priests have refused to be registered. From this apparently trifling but actually fundamental disagreement others have venomously sprung, resulting in the expulsion of the Prelates from Mexico, the suspension of service in Mexican churches, and the actual fomentation of civil war by militantly...
Said he: "Priests conduct weddings; they get money for it. Priests conduct funerals; they get money for it. They conduct various other sorts of services and they get money for them. Consequently the State must know who these priests are. It must register them. We must know who are the responsible heads of their churches. We are not asking anything outrageous-merely obeyance...
...going to have. . . . GOLF, Yes Sir! LUNCHEONS, EXHIBITS, PRIVATE ENTERTAINMENT-While it is not possible and would not be good form for the executive secretary to mention any of these affairs specifically, he is informed and believes 'on advice of counsel,' that he should state that there are some very remarkable dinners, breakfasts and suppers planned, not to mention other most desirable features...