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...only† important customer of Great Britain with whom that country had a favorable balance of trade. British statesmen are not likely wantonly to embark on a line of action which would interfere with a trade position so advantageous to their country." Next day ex-President Cosgrave laid the groundwork for his attack on the bill, moved an amendment stating that it "places in jeopardy the rights, liberties, economic privileges and freedom" assured to the Irish under present Free State status, which includes the oath to King George...
...Patriarch named Photios. And not since 787 (second Nicaean Council, before East and West split) has there been held an Ecumenical Synod of the Orthodox Eastern Church. Next June at Mount Athos, Greece's monastic republic (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929), will be held a prosynod to lay the groundwork for an Ecumenical Synod (probably in 1934) whereat the theological problems of twelve centuries, including Anglican unity, will be deliberated...
...When called to TIME in 1928 he was on the staff of the Albany (N. Y.) Knickerbocker Press writing editorials and in charge of the Sunday magazine. Brilliant both as writer and analyst, he soon became TIME'S Business Editor. In 1929 he was selected to lay the groundwork for FORTUNE, being named Managing Editor when the magazine appeared in January, 1930. By last week he had seen FORTUNE establish a reputation for being, according to various estimates: 1) the most readable and most thoroughgoing magazine on the subject of business; 2) the "most beautiful magazine in America." Having...
...Third Party. The last big Progressive meeting occurred in 1924 when the groundwork was laid for the late great Robert Marion La Follette's independent presidential candidacy. Despite his 5,000,000 popular votes, La Follette left his supporters with a conviction of the futility of Third Party movements under existing U. S. political conditions. Progressives last week unfurled the old La Follette battle flag, echoed the old La Follette war cries but hushed all talk of a third party. Results, if any, were to be accomplished by Insurgency within the old parties, not by Independence outside them...
Perhaps the groundwork that the Vagabond got in German A wasn't quite so thorough as he had thought it, but surely French, the common property of polite peoples of all nations, was not beyond his ken. He fairly exuded French colloquialisms when he went to see "La Grande Mare". In this linguistic workout he had a lead on his immediate neighbors at the theatre, a portly matron from Melrose (she came to be enraptured of M. Chevalier) and the student from Boston Latin (he, to see la belle Mlle. Colbert), since he had seen the English version first...