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Venizelos freed the island of Crete, his birthplace, from Turkish dominion and brought it under Greek rule (1890-1909). He organized the Balkan League, which thrust Turkey back from considerable European territory in the Balkan War of 1912. After the World War, Venizelos proved himself easily the greatest diplomat among the representatives of minor powers at the Paris Peace Conference. His "enticing charm"-as one statesman expressed it-won for Greece so much added territory that the Greco-Turkish frontier is now but 20 miles from Constantinople...
...recalled that M. Liaptcheff, although not a Militarist, took an active part in the prosecution of the so-called "First Balkan War" (1912-1913), and signed the Treaty of London, which ended that struggle and freed Bulgaria from Turkey. He was also one of the signers of the Armistice at Saloniki in 1918, and has twice served as Minister of Finance, once in the War Cabinet of M. Radoslavov...
Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler of Montana, Democrat, ticket mate of the late Progressive candidate for President, Senator LaFollette, was last week freed of a legal charge. A Justice of the District of Columbia Supreme Court quashed an indictment against...
...world are to somebody who has killed a lot of his fellow men. . . . I do not expect to create a race of heroes by offering prizes. I know well that the heroic action is impulsive. . . . But I have all along felt that heroes and their dependents should be freed from pecuniary cares resulting from their heroism." Observers noted that no pecuniary cares have devolved upon Edda Mussolini as a result of her heroism. Accordingly she will receive only a medal. The Hero Fund however might have additionally rewarded her in cash, at its discretion, had she been in need...
...Shapley further reports that during trance the Psychic freed the fingers of her left hand from his grasp and appeared to be using them to assist in the production of phenomena. Code reports an similar freeing of the Psychic's right hand during trance and a rather more extensive use of that hand in the production of phenomena...