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...Withdrawal of recognition of the Peking Government until recognized in a certain manner by the Chinese people...
...article said in part: "As far as his approach (President Wilson with the League) to the Senate was concerned, in my judgment, the President's purpose was impeccable but his manner unfortunate. . . . He might have been a little less yielding at Paris and a little more yielding at Washington if he had realized that the situation was no longer wholly in his hands. . . . On the other hand the result would probably have been the same, for the Senate were plainly waiting to deal him a mortal blow. . . . The United States, after having risen to heights of courage and idealism...
...session, made compulsory a new set of standards for grading cotton in all interstate and foreign transactions. In alarm, the representatives of the principal European cotton markets hastened to Washington, being in doubt as to the effect of this new law upon their interests. Despite the curt and bureaucratic manner in which the law was passed, however, its outcome seems likely to prove beneficial to every one. The standards, which are now due to be followed all over the world, relate especially to discoloration, amount of foreign matter contained and care used in preparation for market; they were drawn...
Since the normal methods of christening seem not wholly proper when applied to a golf course, the Olympia Country Club, Chicago, will open its newest course in a manner at once fitting and unique. They propose to present an aeroplane golf match. Two flyers will drop balls from the air as near the hole as possible. Then their team representatives on the greens will hole out the aerial approaches with their putters. The occasion marks the opening of the fourth eighteen at Olympia, making it the largest club in the world...
...delaying the journey of light rays. Murder, royal jewels, ghosts, all find their place in the volume; some of the stories are exceedingly droll, one is gripping, several are mediocre and one or two are asinine. On the whole, however, the stories are braced up by the ingenious manner in which the reader becomes interested in the teller of the stories--Gibson himself--rather than in the stories, and it is really to follow him through, to see why he tells these absurd lies and to find out what becomes of him that the book is read...