Word: stroking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adverse critics of the Administration were quick to point out what they identified as " a magnificent political stroke to capture Southern Republican support and hence delegates to the next Republican Convention." They shook their heads over what amounted to "almost an announcement that Coolidge is out full force for the 1924 Republican nomination." They muttered " patronage power" and spoke of "a Chief Executive who stoops to measure men by the political yardstick...
...represented in the Luxembourg, the Berlin National Gallery, the Venice, Madrid and Buenos Aires Museums, the Chicago Art Institute, and in many private collections of the United States and Europe. But his crowning work is the great series in the Hispanic Museum, New York, completed just before the paralytic stroke which ended his painting days in 1920. This consists of a Panorama of the 49 Provinces of Spain, representing scenery, costumes and customs of each province. These were brought to America in 1922 by the painter's son, and will form a permanent monument in the New World...
...quota for each month should be 10% instead of 20% of the annual allowance. This would spread the immigration period over ten instead of five months. There would be no more of such conditions as those of July 31, when ten vessels assembled in Gravesend Bay, waiting for the stroke of midnight, and then dashed across the line, so that eight of them arrived within four minutes. In the narrow channel there was imminent danger of collision. In fact the Orizaba and the Argentina came within one foot of collision as the race started. In the darkness a collision...
During the Fascist repression, most of the carefully integrated labor movement in Italy, the Chambers of Labor, the Coöperatives, the Unions, were broken up. D'Annunzio's first stroke was to intercede with the Government for the striking Marine workers. His last move is the founding of a d'Annunzian Chamber of Work at Florence. The charter of the Chamber is based on his Constitution of the Quarnaro, adopted in his Fiume venture. This Constitution bases society on a system of guilds, both of workmen and employers, and is a self-conscious endeavor...
Died. Dr. E. P. Wilmot, 65, President of the Austin National Bank of Austin, Texas, former practicing surgeon, friend of President Harding, in New York, following an apoplectic stroke...