Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This month Mrs. Willebrandt, private citizen, has been telling what she knows about Prohibition. Her articles, syndicated by Publicist David Lawrence's alert Current News Features, Inc., have been appearing in the New York Times, Chicago Daily News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer & many another. Following is a synopsis of her revelations, remedies, sentiments...
...ashamed to have to explain to a major of the U. S. Army (I am an American citizen) that the Dominicans as well as most of the population of Latin America are descendants of Spaniards, and consequently, it denotes quite a limited knowledge, the one who says this is a Negro republic...
...Prohibition. In Washington he lived at the Driscoll Hotel, on the opposite side of Capitol Hill, rented out his gift home. Though he said he would not take $20,000 for the property because of its proximity to the Capitol, Library of Congress, Union Station, nevertheless as a "loyal citizen" he consented to sell...
...child. Joyce Stanton (Mildred McCoy) makes this strategic confession to G. A. Appleby (Harlan Briggs). Of course it is untrue-she is inspired by the plight of the family's housemaid. Appleby is much older than she and, though he is the town's richest and noisiest citizen, his love-making under the trees is too unctuous for pretty, sensitive Joyce. Her falsehood also reveals that the young college hockey player whom she thought she loved is not so ardent as he seemed. James Stevens (Minor Watson), the tweedy young family lawyer, meets the issue by claiming...
Best minds have often contended that Egypt ought not to have a Magna Carta. For example, Citizen Theodore Roosevelt, speaking at London in 1910, warmed the cockles of British hearts by shouting: "If you feel that you have no right to be in Egypt, if you do not wish to establish and keep order there, why, then, by all means get out of Egypt! . . . Some nation must govern Egypt. . . . I hope and believe that you will decide that it is your duty to be that nation!" Citizen Roosevelt had just topped off his famed African hunting expedition with an Egyptian...