Word: upon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charges made against me so preyed upon my mind that I trembled upon the very edge of eternity.† . . . I never stole an election. . . . How unfair and unjust my accusers have been in attempting to twist mere clerical irregularities and technicalities into acts of political fraud and conspiracy...
Last week's troubles originated with a strike in October of students at Damien Agricultural School, whose "bonus" allowances the government had reduced. Anti-Borno politicos seized upon this strike to spread the gospel of unrest through the canebrake country. A general strike began to gather momentum. At the Port-au-Prince customs house, under U. S. control, native employes rioted, broke office furniture and equipment, manhandled U. S. agents. A mob gathered before the National City Bank branch, jeered, threw rocks. Promptly the U. S. High Commissioner, Brig. General John Henry Russell of the Marine Corps, declared martial...
Ministress of Labor Margaret ("Saint Maggie'') Bondfield provoked the crisis by refusing a Left Laborite demand to add ?50,000 ($250,000) to the dole under the Government's Unemployment Relief Bill (TIME, Nov. 25). Then upon hobnailed feet rose sturdy John Wheately, a Scotsman from the industrial Clydeside slums of Glasgow, five years ago Minister of Health in the first MacDonald Cabinet...
...white, high-necked, long-sleeved, as Vatican etiquette demands. Half shrouded by a white lace mantilla, her regal head carried a proud coronet, and upon the black cordon of Malta across her bosom depended in eight strands the fabulous Pearls of Savoy, huge as pale butter balls...
...American Government feels that the respect with which China and Russia will hereafter be held in the good opinion of the world will necessarily in great measure depend upon the way in which they carry out [their] most sacred promises [as signatories of the Kellogg Pact...