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...over the Kingdom of Irak [containing Mosul] from the League, we are pledged to carry it out. If we weaken the League by not doing so, we shall regret that weakening when the League is called upon in future to take action?perhaps in some unforeseen crisis which might develop about the Locarno Treaties or some similar agreement. . . . In accepting the decision of the League Council, we are simply continuing our present regime for 25 years or until Irak enters the League, which may well take place before that time. . . . In any case, if Turkey should attempt to seize...
General business continues on its even keel. Stability appears to increase and the weaker departments of trade improve, while the stronger refuse to develop boom conditions. Secretary Mellon's cheerful and optimistic report (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) no doubt expresses the sentiments of the average U. S. business executive...
...There is no sort of writing that affords more enjoyment than editorial writing. As is not true in news competitions, where the style of the candidate is more or less standardized, in editorial competitions the candidate is given a chance to develop his own style, which he changes to suit different types of subjects...
...Louisville (Ky.) Courier Journal: "The object of a sport should be to develop physically the greatest possible number of men. Certainly, the modern football game, with its specialization and segregation of the players, does not fill the bill...
...learned, that experience and study will make them good actors, just as experience and study make a man successful in the business world. They don't realize that an actor or comedian, like a poet, is born and not made. Of course, experience and hard work help develop whatever dramatic ability a man may have, but they cannot make an actor out of a man if he is not an actor to begin with...