Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Musee du Luxembourg has prospered under his direction. It is to M. Benedite that France owes the interesting creation, in this museum of a foreign-art section, which today comprises more than 300 canvasses, and among which Americans are represented by sixty paintings and about ten sculptures. M. Benedite has been intimately connected with many great American masters, among whom were Whistler, Saint-Gandens, and John La Farge. Just before his death, Whistler designated M. Benedite to organize his posthumous exposition...
...Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Czecho-Slovak Republic. He is an American by nationality, who went over to Europe, impelled by his interest in the new Republic. While there he became connected with the Bureau of National Information and has travelled all over the country since its creation by the Peace Conference. He has made a special study of the Czecho-Slovak constitution, which is generally regarded as the groundwork of the most advanced democracy in the world. In America he is lecturing on what he considers the merits and faults of the constitution and on the general condition...
...which has led public opinion to group the three together. Differing in age and in numbers, and quite unequalled in numerous ways by many of the other great educational institutions of the country, a similarity of standards and to a great extent of ideals has led inevitably to the creation of a bond of sympathy between the three universities which remains unaffected by the triumphs or the defeats of the moment...
...which Article X of the League of Nations Covenant has been put, and the result is far from encouraging. Roumania will soon be looking around for allies. Inasmuch as she cannot depend upon the League for protection the old system of alliances will be renewed, and the re-creation of a "balance of power" is to be expected...
...ears in debt, refuse to face the facts, and are spending lavishly. It is always difficult to curb and sacrifice. That is why people are talking today so glibly of redistribution and dispossession. The rearrangement of two lines never made a triangle; only the creation of new assets will be able to pay off our debt incurred during the war. This requires greater efficiency on the part of all workers with loss unnecessary consumption. Any other program than this one of astringent thrift will not reduce our mortgage one penny...