Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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French officers in Morocco did not hesitate to say that the recall of General Freydenberg was entirely political. The Ait Yacoub affair was causing uncomfortable debates in the Chamber of Deputies. Socialist and Communist deputies wanted to know the cause of this latest Moroccan outbreak. There were stories of Moorish villages bombed by aviators, Moorish women and children killed. The Poincare government, attacked, recalled Freydenberg, whose brusque methods had been if anything too effective...
...rested awhile and returned to Roosevelt Field in the fastest transcontinental time?17 hrs.. 38 min., 16 sec. Total flying time for the round trip: 36 hrs., 48 min., 48 sec. Said he: "I do not think a transcontinental flight need be a non-stop affair. This, too, is still impractical and must be classed as a stunt. . . . Frankly, the only reason I made non-stop flights was to draw closer attention to the feasibility of flying across the continent, with stops or without...
...Georgia, Bishop W. N. Ainsworth, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, deaf to the bellowings of his diocesans, spoke out in defense of the De Priest affair: "There is no more justification for the exclusion of a black man and his wife from such a function than there is to exclude a red, yellow, brown or white one. The President and his wife do not select any of them; the constituency does. It is about time for everybody to quit seeing black only...
Wrote he: "If the Syndicat does not support me in this affair in which I am trapped . . . whalebone dealers will be able to attack fashion chroniclers who write against corsets. ... On that day there will be no more liberty of the pen, there will be no freedom of appreciation, there will be no more journalists, and there will be no further use for the Syndicate of Journalists. Allow me to believe in its usefulness...
...proposed list must not resolve itself into a journalistic, polemic affair. It must be done with serious intentions. Every one must state exactly the reasons why he gave preference to a foreign motor car in order that these reasons may be studied and weighed...