Word: tain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas J. Mooney, wife of the labor leader, convicted of complicity in the Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco in 1916, addressed the meeting. A subscription of $1,000 was voted to help ob- tain a pardon for Mooney...
...Attempts to Rectify its Abuses. "The selection of delegates from cer tain of the Southern states had become so corrupt and had created so many scandals thai finally the Republican National Convention in 1920 passed a resolution commanding within a year the Republican National Committee to adopt a 'Just and equitable basis' of representation in future national conventions. The national committee obeyed and within the year acted, and while its action did not constitute 'a just and equitable representation,' nevertheless, it reduced the delegates in Southern states where there is no Republican party...
Although he had falsely prophesied that the German invasion in 1914 would come through the Vosges, his vast knowledge of military affairs made him worthy of a place on the Supreme War Council in 1920. His three associates were his maréchals, Joffre, Foch, Pétain...
...Paul Painlevé, Premier of France for a brief period in 1917, has sought to put an end to the ex post facto argument between him and ex-Premier Clémenceau, as to which of them appointed Marshals Foch and Pétain to commands during the War. He published a new book entitled How I Appointed Foch and Pétain...
...tragedies of the art of acting that when the last cur tain falls there is nothing to hold the expression of a great personality for future generations. Sarah Bern hardt is gone, and those who do not hold the impress of her dynamic genius on the tables of reminiscence can know her only as a cloudy legend, obscured by time and by the many puzzles presented by her career. The divine Sarah represented the highest achievement in emotional act ing. She was handicapped with an appearance which, while preserving its youth with phenomenal tenacity, was never strictly beautiful...