Word: responded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crave no sympathy, but only a pallid smile can respond to the suspicion that . . . Germany . . . can at any visible date . . . set up a war machine...
...showing a very commendable skill in organizing themselves to transact their own business through cooperative marketing, which will this year turn over about $2,500,000,000, or nearly one-fifth of the total agricultural business. The Department of Agriculture should be strengthened in order to be able to respond when these marketing associations want help...
...there is a legend which attaches to his name an even more precious honor, that of being Brother Jonathan from whom our country takes its traditional name. Lodge's 'Life' of Washington' refers to him as 'Old Governor Trumbull, Brother Jonathan, who never failed to respond when a call was made for men and money, and upon whose friendship and advice Washington always leaned.' His career is briefly summarized by the inscription on his tombstone in the Lebanan, Conn., and cemetery...
...Permanent Secretariat of the League of Nations is appropriately found in that most peaceful of Swiss cities, Geneva. Exotic female visitors by the dozen, score and million cry out, "How perfect!" and the slightly world-weary assistants of Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary General to the League since its inception respond, "How dull...
...from Harvard in 1727, and rose to the governorship of Connecticut in 1769. He held this post for 14 years, throughout the Revolutionary period. Washington leaned heavily on Trumbull for both assistance and advice in the long series of emergencies and during these critical years Trumbull never failed to respond when calls were made for men or money...