Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final step of declaring all U. S. Indians citizens by birth did not come until nearly two-thirds of all Indians in the U. S. had obtained the franchise through naturalization...
...still childless, but last week a concubine attached to their household gave birth to a manchild, which Premier Tanaka hastened to recognize as his first and only legitimate son. Soon gladsome friends made the Tanaka mansion buzz with compliments, as they praised the Premier of Japan for taking a step so prudent and timely, in his 63rd year...
Last autumn the Marconi Co. opened a "beam" radio service between Canada and England (TIME, Nov. 1, 1926). Last January the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. inaugurated actual exchanges of the human voice by telephone between London and Manhattan eek there was announced a step towards a parallel development of communication westward from the U. S. President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union declared that his company was ready to lay a transpacific cable like its two new Atlantic cables. With radio so enormously developed laymen marvelled that so shrewd a businessman as Newcomb Carlton was taking so ambitious a stride...
...waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth of Rumania, better known by her pen name, "Carmen Silva." Queen Elizabeth, sympathizing with the lovers, permitted them to be constantly together. When news of this came to strict, arbitrary King Carol of Rumania, he broke off the affair by the ruthless step of banishing Mile. Vacarescu from Rumania, and later sending Queen Elizabeth into enforced residence in Germany. Last week Helene Vacarescu, overcome by grief at the death of Ferdinand I, left Paris to spend a period of mourning at Vichy, smart...
Thus threatened, Consul Chapman retreated step by step to his bedroom, the peons making no demands but simply prodding him on. There the man with the revolver suddenly fired at point blank range, sending a bullet into Mr. Chapman's left breast which fortunately passed cleanly through, not leaving a mortal wound. An instant later both peons dashed from the house...