Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks priorto both the Hoover-Baby and Smith-Baloney incidents, Nominee Curtis (Republican) was approached in Providence, R. I., where he was resting and yachting, and asked to pose for press cameras in the act of dirt-farming. Nominee Curtis' reply was: "You've got to take me as I am. I'm not farming" (TIME, July...
...reached, operators began "welshing," to meet non-union competition. On April 1, 1927, when the agreement expired, began the general bituminous strike, a strike that is not settled yet. Through successive months of hope, doggedness, anger, misery, squalor, International President John L. Lewis exhorted the United Mine Workers to take "no backward step" from their demands for continuance of Jacksonville rates. Many an operator went bankrupt. Many a head was broken in fights between union pickets and company "scabs" or police. The strong companies remanned their mines with non-union...
...just received, last week, the unanimous promises to sign his treaty of the following nations: Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada, Australia, Poland, New Zealand, India, Rumania, South Africa, Czechoslovakia, Irish Free State.* Never before had so many nations bound themselves with the U. S. to take a momentous step...
Article III The present treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties named in the Preamble in accordance with their respective constitutional requirements, and shall take effect as between them as soon as all their several instruments of ratification shall have been deposited at This treaty shall when it has come into effect as prescribed in the preceding para graph, remain open as long as may be necessary for adherence by all the other Powers of the world. Every instrument evidencing the adherence of a Power shall be deposited at and the treaty shall immediately upon such deposit become...
...Withdraw!" screamed Bergery, "Withdraw! If you don't take back the words 'distort the truth' I will send you my seconds...