Word: term
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Means was not involved in the Veterans' Bureau scandal. The name in that was Forbes, whose term at Leavenworth Penitentiary ended last winter...
...TIME requested Subscriber Epstein not to make unbridled use of the term...
...Socialist Government?the first one in five years?took office just nine years to a day after the Treaty of Versailles was signed by Hermann Müller and other Germans, cowed, docile. Hermann Müller was Prime Minister in 1920 for a brief term. His present swaggeringly named Cabinet will probably be revamped when Great Dr. Stresemann is able to be up and active again...
After betraying Wu and seizing Peking (see p. 17) the Christian War Lord took a grave step. Until then the Republican Government had fulfilled the term of an agreement signed with the head of the Manchu Dynasty, in 1912, whereby the abdicated Boy Emperor was guaranteed the retention of his palace in Peking and a pension of 4,000,000 taels per year. Feng brushed this contract aside, ousted the Boy Emperor from his palace, and gave that young man such good reason to suspect that he would be murdered that, with the aid of his British tutor...
...Horn" to Africa, Puleston declares that the recorded exploring expeditions, river charting, native battles, elephant hunts, "gorilla purveys," and rescue of a captive English girl, were impossible for any young employe, virtually a desk-bound office boy, of Hatton & Cookson. Unfortunately "Horn" lays claim to these experiences during his term of employ by that prosaic firm-a term which Employe Puleston computes as three to six years rather than the implied "lifetime" of 20-30-40 years...