Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago's 70 businessmen had picked out a monster adversary. Before they can claim success, they must get the War Department's barge line off the Mississippi and Warrior Rivers, stop Federal production of hydroelectric power at Muscle Shoals, turn its river-&-harbor digging over to private hands. Other governmental activities which, as "private business," the F. of A. B. would have to abolish: printing by one of the biggest plants in the U. S.; ship-building at Navy yards; operation of the Alaskan Railroad by the Department of the Interior; the U. S. Shipping Board...
...Huguenots on St. Bartholomew's Day (1572), which was instigated by King Charles's mother, Catherine de' Medici. The famed Paris hotel on La Place de la Concorde was named for him. Bertrand Du Guesclin (1320 -1380), constable of France, was the most famed French warrior of his age. He fought in the wars between France and England, was made a lord, a count, was ransomed for 100,000 crowns following the battle of Auray, died on the field of battle...
Death of a Warrior. It was a last revolution for one old fighter, General Francisco Peraza. Even 1895 was no novelty for intrepid General Peraza, who was then 44 years old. He was a 17-year-old "Colonel" in the first war for independence in 1868. He fought through the Spanish-American War as a General. In 1917 he buckled on his ancient horse pistol and went out as a rebel against President Menocal. For this revolution he had made peace with Menocal and joined his forces, partly through a mutual hatred of Machado the Rooster, and partly because...
Before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. at Pittsburgh last week. Dr. Matthews rose to his full height and, with the authority of a onetime (1912) moderator and an everlasting warrior, denunciated: "The Federal Council must be taught to under stand that the Presbyterian Church is not going to stand for ill-advised utterances on moral subjects, and if it cannot be taught, our financial support [$18,000] will be withdrawn. [Let] the Federal Council be instructed to hold its peace on questions of delicacy, morality and integrity until we have an opportunity...
...Matahi, and the girl, Reri, escape from their own island to a more civilized one where he becomes the best pearl diver in the harbor. One night he dives into dangerous water to get a pearl which will enable them to go further away from the pursuing warrior Hitu. When Matahi gets back, Hitu has already prevailed on Reri to return. He sees their boat, swims after it, sinks as the boat grows small across the water...