Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...violate their provisions outside of Italy. For example, a person who commits a crime against the "personality" of the state, or counterfeits the seal of state, or falsifies Italian currency, or who "offends" on foreign territory the rights or polit- ical interests of Italy or of an Italian subject, is amenable to the statutes. Moreover, any foreigner tried and acquitted, or convicted and sentenced in the country in which the crime was committed may be retried and acquitted or convicted by the Italian courts...
Bolivian and Paraguayan troops glared at each other last week over a little-known, nondescript strip of borderland. They glared the more ferociously because the soil was popularly supposed to contain valu- able oil deposits. The land itself is of no agricultural value, being subject to floods at certain seasons of the year; but, for oil and other reasons, it was in dispute between the two countries. Which side of the frontier should...
...policy of the Boy Scouts of America in connection with this subject has been endorsed from time to time by the highest Army Officials. As a matter of fact General Pershing in addressing the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America, some years ago, said, "I would not introduce military training into the program of the Boy Scouts of America, if I could...
...volumes for the distance the two onetime enemies have traveled since the War. Up to 1914, trade between the two countries was regulated by the Treaty of Frankfort, which ended the war of 1870-71. Since the World War, there has been no well-defined commercial accord, trade being subject to a general agreement, except in the case of specific articles, on the basis of the customs laws of both nations, which has been governed in turn by certain provisions of the Versailles Treaty...
...first letter appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1887, correcting a statement that George Cruikshank, famed caricaturist, was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery -his tomb really being in St. Paul's Cathedral. His most recent letter appeared last month-on Beethoven. Meanwhile he has written on every subject, but chiefly "of graves, of worms and epitaphs." Searching for epistolary material he has become an expert on London and Paris burying grounds. Disappointments, which come to every man in public life, forced his retirement in 1903. He came back. In 1908 he retired again, publicly and with strong vows...