Word: evenings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defense did not even need to call its witnesses. As soon as the sketchy pleas of the prosecution had been presented. Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. directed the jury to acquit the prisoner...
...prosperous. Surplus tax collections have been piling up over estimates month after month. Therefore, argued many a Deputy last week, why not go back to the good old pre-Poincaré system? In those days the budget debate was a tournament of oratory lasting well into March, April or even...
Unfriendly Act? As was later admitted to Washington correspondents, the Stimson notes were drafted when their author did not know whether to believe conflicting reports that China and Russia were even then patching up their differences at a peace parley near Vladivostok. Other reports convinced Mr. Stimson that Soviet planes were bombing Chinese villages. He meant well, meant to stop any possibility of slaughter. But to Comrade Litvinov, who knew from his direct wire to the peace parley that China was yielding and Russia winning peace on her own terms, the U. S. note seemed at best an intrusion...
...Comrade Litvinov made the most of it. Stomachs quaked with mirth as he told in droll fashion how Statesman Stimson had called on all the 53 Kellogg Treaty nations to second his note, and concluded amid guffaws: ''I have just received a cablegram saying that Panama-even great Panama-stands with Mr. Stimson...
...genuine desire for peace [on the part of Mr. Stimson] might have prompted him [to act] much earlier, even the first week after the Chinese broke the letter and the spirit of the Kellogg Pact by violent and unauthorized seizure of the Chinese Eastern Railway and arbitrary measures against Soviet citizens" (TIME, July...