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...Conference had substantially agreed to sign forthwith the protocol of the Reparations Plan, drafted at Paris last spring under the chairmanship of Owen D. Young, by a committee of bankers of whom Dr. Schacht was one. He signed the original Paris draft of the Plan, approved the articles establishing a $100,000,000 Bank for International Settlements (B. I. S.), and allowed everyone to assume that of course the Reichsbank would subscribe its allotted quota of the capital...
...suggestions for the remedy of these evils come readily to mind. The installation of draft boards to deflect the current of air upward would make it possible to leave certain windows partly open continuously without any discomfort to those seated near them. A humidifying device of some sort is not as essential but might be practicable without excessive expense and at least deserves consideration. There is certainly no excuse for the totally unsatisfactory condition that now prevails...
...effect rejected, the Indian National Congress was at zero hour last week when Mr. Gandhi, attended by ascetic gentlemen in white loin cloths and lean ladies in pink girdles, squatted down cross-legged on the rostrum and announced that the executive committee of the Congress had adopted unanimously his draft Declaration of Independence and would put it to vote after suitable debate. As the debate began, the weather turned bitter cold. Mr. Gandhi drew a piece of cloth over his shoulders and sat quiet, knitting something woolen...
...always been a cat fancier, and pride myself on knowing a good deal about them, and contrary to general opinion cats are very delicate and especially susceptible to colds and pneumonia, and should never even in the warmest weather be bathed in the open air, or exposed to any draft while the least bit wet. So many of them surfer severe aftereffects, as well as torture from extreme fright, which cats who are not accustomed to water always have of being put in it. Give 15 minutes excitement at a County Fair, and set a bad example of animal treatment...
...peace conference it was no secret that Clémenceau allowed Tardieu to draft important sections of the Treaty of Versailles. Afterwards this honor proved a boomerang, for the treaty soon became unpopular, and tenacious André Tardieu made matters worse for himself by incessantly defending it. "One has only to mention Versailles." smiled M. Poincaré at this period, "and Tardieu will rise up and cry 'present...