Word: territoryes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Second Seminole War continued actively for seven years, cost the Government 1,500 men and $40,000,000, drove most of the tribe to a miserable existence in Indian Territory. A stubborn few could not be dislodged from Florida's swamps. Their descendants, some of whom intermarried with...
"Need I speak of the long history of our renunciation of essential clauses of the Treaty of Versailles . . . one long list of abandonment of our bills against Germany. It is our taxpayers who pay and will pay for years to come for destruction which was not incidental to war-operations...
A Chinese in Manhattan who wants to start a laundry does what a Manhattan Irishman used to do when he wanted to open a saloon. The would-be saloonkeeper, in the old days, went first to Tammany Hall for political permission. The aspiring laundryman today trots around to No. 16...
As recently as 1821 Greece was a servile Turkish province. It was largely with Russian backing that a few Greek Christians won freedom for the barren lower tip of the Greek peninsula. For the rest of the 19th Century the Greeks acquired a shameful record of defeat in battle. They...
Invading English territory, the Rugby Club is sending a squad of 20 men to Bermuda during the spring vacation to contend with English teams and also with a Yale one.