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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lunching, the delegates held a secret session in the Bank of France at which they unanimously besought Mr. Young to chairman the second Dawes Committee, on account of the leading role which he played on the first Dawes Committee. Since President Calvin Coolidge has intimated that he would prefer a European chairman, Mr. Young is obliged to query the White House by cable, in code. Signor Benito Mussolini has meanwhile observed in Rome: "To assemble the committee has cost four months of time. It is to be hoped that its labors will proceed more expe-ditiously...
...week, to shout from every platform in England that their Conservative opponents have "gagged" H. R. H. The deplorable process of dragging the Crown into the election was even begun in the House of Commons, when Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kenneth Howard Bury, M. P. [Conservative] insinuated that some* miners prefer living on the dole to work, a chorus of Laborites shouted: "Liar! Sit down! You have insulted the heir to the throne...
...purpose of the contest is to find out the type of college students prefer to attend, and to encourage thinking and writing about standards of academic life. No essay should be more than 2000 words in length...
...story about Feld Marshal von Machensen, which had been published several times before without denial, it rings true, and when I consider the veracity of TIME, and compare it with that of members of the German High Command, I prefer to believe TIME. We have not yet forgotten how Feld Marshal von Machensen, et al, broke their pledged word, as evinced by solemn treaty, and invaded Belgium without any right except that of might. If their word was of no value in 1914 what reason have we to believe that the leopard has changed his spots? The same stricture applies...
...with investigating how large a measure of self-determination can be wisely extended by Great Britain's Parliament. Thoroughly suspicious of Sir John and all his works-Pandit Nehru has said: "In this Commission there is nothing but a machine to forge chains upon India. . . . Personally I should prefer forced slavery to being a party to forging the chains to bind...