Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union League Club, founded in 1863 on the plank of "uncompromising and unconditional loyalty to the Nation," regardless of party?a club which has since grown into a great Republican stronghold, numbering among its presidents Joseph H. Choate, Hamilton Fish, Chauncey M. Depew, Elihu Root, Charles E. Hughes, Henry P. Davison, James R. Sheffield (now Ambassador to Mexico) ?a birthday celebration was held. It was in honor of the forth coming 80th anniversary of the birth of Elihu Root...
Raisuli, bloated like a balloon, suffering agony from dropsy in the legs, Jay amid rich carpets and cushions on the floor of his palace stronghold in the mountains near Tazreut. Heavy fighting had been going on outside, but. now all was quiet. Suddenly, there was the trampling of many feet and into the room swept some Moorish officers of Sultan Muhammad, otherwise...
...registered a choice at the polls has declined from 80 per cent to a mere 49 per cent in 1920. State percentages are even more discouraging. In South Carolina in 1920 only 8.5 per cent of the qualified voters stuck a ballot in the box. In New England, the stronghold for the free suffrages of the people, Massachusetts was high, with a total of 53-3 per cent. Politically minded citizens seem to have moved to the West, where staggered totals of over 60 per cent of the qualified voters were discovered in some of the more politically active states...
...general treaty either annulled or confirmed all previous Anglo-Russian treaties; recognized the three-mile-limit of territorial waters; specified a fishing agreement; relegated to the stronghold of time all claims, counter-claims and debts relating to the period August, 1914, to February, 1924, when Soviet Russia was recognized by the British Government...
Federal troops hurled shells and bombs into the rebel stronghold in the city of Sao Paulo. Thousands of people were killed, great damage to property was inflicted, but the rebels budged not, neither could bullets make them budge...