Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some 30,000 votes. Anti-Smith convention delegates were likewise elected. And, in the Fourth Congressional District, U. S. Representative William J. Sears lost out to Tradition as embodied in the 43-year-old daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, "The Little Commoner." A War nurse, Chautauqua lecturer, energetic personality, Mrs. Owen laid stress upon her own abilities rather than her father's fame...
...utter layman could think this issue simple, academic, dull. It takes on liveliest political interest from the fact that 6,000,000 French voters hold paper franc Government securities and are bitterly opposed to admitting once and for all that the franc has declined to 4? from a pre-War value of 19.3?, or about 5 francs per $1. By these millions of voters the hope is nurtured that the franc, which sank as low as 2? in 1926, may rise further than its present value of 4?, perhaps to the dizzy height of 10?. To translate this hope into...
...State above the Pope, and all Roman Catholic priests have refused to be registered. From this apparently trifling but actually fundamental disagreement others have venomously sprung, resulting in the expulsion of the Prelates from Mexico, the suspension of service in Mexican churches, and the actual fomentation of civil war by militantly religious elements in the State of Jalisco...
Troops marching under the banner of the Nanking Nationalist Government quietly occupied Peking, last week, but in such curious fashion that no man could say with certainty in whose hands the city actually lay. It had previously been evacuated (TIME, June 11) by the great War Lord Chang Tso-lin, who retired to Mukden, Manchuria, and lay there, last week, nigh to death from wounds inflicted by an assassin's bomb...
...advancing upon Tientsin with another section of his enormous personal army, which probably totals 100,000 men. In Tientsin were large remnants of the armies of Chang Tso-lin which recently evacuated Peking. These troops, said to number 30,000 and excellently equipped, were commanded by the wounded War Lord's son, Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang...