Word: vain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oklahoma City, a father appeared at a hospital carrying his baby girl, weight 15 ounces, length nine inches, pillowed on a hot water bottle in a shoe box, whom he had rushed by automobile 100 miles over muddy roads in a vain effort to save her life...
Exit the Premier. In Madrid the Alhucemas Government pleaded in vain with King Alfonso (who returned hurriedly to the capital from Satander on the Bay of Biscay, where he had just won two races with his yacht Giralda IV in the annual Royal Regatta), to obtain power to put down the revolution. The Ministry then resigned, and the King recognized the revolution by royal decree, appointing General Don Miguel Primo Rivera virtual Dictator?" President of the National Directorate...
...Rudolf Hilferding, Finance Minister, delved into the accounts of his predecessor, Dr. Andreas Hermes. He informed Chancellor Stresemann that he had discovered evidence of " the biggest graft case in Germany's political history." Herr Stresemann decided to have the former Finance Minister arrested. It is expected- perhaps in vain-that Herr Hugo Stinnes' financial peregrinations will be exposed...
...Grew, American unofficial observer, permitted the concessions of the British Vickers-Armstrong Syndicate and French Regie Generale des Chemins de Fer, shorn of their obnoxious preferential clauses, to be included in the Treaty. In vain Sir Horace Rumbold argued that the Turkish Petroleum Co. concession for the Mesopotamian oilfields was valid, that his Government considered no other claims when British interests were affected and that any later contradictory agreement (i. e., the Chester Concession) made by the Turks was simply illegal. Mr. Grew icily referred the British representative to the three years' correspondence between the British and American Governments...
...make political capital out of the incident are not lacking; but nothing of a serious nature was put forward. Marshal Pilsudski was born of noble parentage in 1863 during the insurrection which was finally put down with great cruelty by the Russians after the Polos had appealed in vain to Europe. He was educated at Vilna and Kharkow, was deported to Siberia (1887-1892) for alleged complicity in a plot to assassinate the Tzar. His sympathy became definitely socialist after this and he was active in many movements for the emancipation of Poland, and soon became the leader...