Word: tor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used force in South America without U. S. objection, and that what ever we could do in South America with out the treaty we could continue to do with the treaty. This last statement was typical of the entire debate, the strategy of which consisted chiefly in asking Sena tor Borah hypothetical questions about what would or would not happen, according to the treaty, in various assumed cases of international complications. Inasmuch as other signatories would presumably be equally unhandicapped, the treaty's value as a war-preventative became entirely shadowy...
Observers have said that the "unspeak able hardships" undergone by Senator Borah will place Mr. Hoover deeply in his debt. If the Republicans should win, he would be the Senate's commanding figure and his commands would have to be listened to at the White House. When Sena tor Borah left Missouri it was to go to Washington to suggest that a special ses sion of Congress be promised for next spring to act on the farm problem, if necessary...
Canada's Sena tor George Dessaulles is a year older than Miss Howland. Grand Sachem of Tammany Hall, John R. Voorhis, is a year younger. Practically every day he goes to work...
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...provinces. The country itself which nine years ago was almost rid of opium, is now the scene of a brisk smuggling trade that is protected by the militarists for the sake of the large revenue the opium trade yields. Lack of political unity is easily recognizable in china, tor while the Chinese have a remarkable solidarity, there is nevertheless, no well-articulated national feeling. The imperial government has been a mere figure-head to the far distant provinces. The center of Chinese government has been the village, and village democracy, in turn, oenters in the office of elder, and seldom...