Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Virginia the Y. W. C. A. asked Author Kirby Page to lecture to them on pacificism. President Frank Butler Trotter forbade Mr. Page the use of the campus for his speech. "Why?" asked Mr. Page. Answered President Trotter: "Because this is a state-supported institution and too much turmoil had been caused by the invitation." The Reserve Officers Training Corps, the American Legion, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Ku Klux Klan had protested. Mr. Page spoke outside the campus, to 75 students...
...born in Pennsylvania, 53 years ago. After he left Harvard in 1900, he went into newspaper work. From 1904 to 1906 he practised law in Manhattan. He has since then become perhaps the most capable captain in the army of newspaper correspondents who report and explain the turmoil of Washington politics. For five years (1912-1917) he edited Collier's Weekly...
Both nations appear to have forgotten the recent turmoil, for Minister Bogomolov is reported to have assured President Moscicki that Russia is ready to conclude a treaty guaranteeing peace between the two countries...
Pheasant was the illegitimate daughter of Maurice Vaughan, whose proffer of matrimony Meg had refused when she learned about Pheasant. On the return of Eden & Alayne, Pheasant is married to Piers. Soon, in this crowded turmoil of brothers and sisters, men and wives," there are readjustments. Renny and Alayne fall in love with each other, likewise Pheasant and Eden...
Across the Pacific there is now but a single cable, controlled jointly by the U. S. Commercial Pacific Co. and by English, Dutch, Danish and Japanese companies. This present cable laid a quarter century ago can carry only 100 letters per minute. During the present turmoil in China it has been found by the Government as well as by the U. S. press and business about as inadequate as a one-fingered typist at a political convention...