Word: generalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reiland, "greatly disappointed," did not despair. For he too had legal counsel: Lawyers Robert Fulton Cutting, civic-minded Manhattan millionaire (TIME, Feb. 14, 1927) and George Woodward Wickersham, onetime (1909-13) U. S. Attorney-General, now chairman of President Hoover's law-enforcement commission. They had assured him that the prayer book's prohibition refers to "church" in the sense of "congregation" and would not apply to the loan of a building. Though he tactfully yielded to the bishop's "official admonition," Dr. Reiland felt his legal position was as good as his bishop...
Appointed. Brig. General Cornelius Vanderbilt III of Manhattan; to command the 77th Division, U. S. A. Reserve, of which the celebrated "Lost Battalion" was a unit...
...found both Thomas Mann and Gustav Stresemann (then an unfamed Reichstag Deputy) ranged hot on the side of Kaiserdom and Conquest. Mann's War-time essays, Reflections of a Non-political Man, show that he shared the general will to spread kultur by the bayonet. Like Stresemann he changed his whole political philosophy after defeat. Both men have been flayed as opportunists. Last week in strongly Royalist Munich, where Republican Mann still lives, news of the Nobel Prize was frigidly received by the newspapers, given scant space, small praise...
Finally the Bank is to have nearly all the powers of a clearing house for funds and credits of every kind,* but scarcely any of those exercised in general business financing by an ordinary bank or bank-of-issue.? Jealously decreed these prohibitions. They were forced upon the Baden-Baden bankers by the European banks of issue?especially the Bank of England? which feared the competition of anything like a "World Bank." The new Cash Register thus does not measure up to the original grand conception of Owen D. Young and the drafters of the Young Plan (TIME...
...fact that Ambassador Ronald has married two daughters of U. S. citizens. His first wife was Martha Cameron, daughter of onetime Senator J. Donald Cameron of Pennsylvania. The present Lady Lindsay was Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, daughter of the late famed stockbroking Colgate Hoyt of Manhattan, and grandniece of General William Tecumseh ("Scourge of Georgia") Sherman...