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Appeals. During the week the Government of Greece appealed to the League to settle certain minor Greco-Turkish frontier disputes, and informed the League Secretariat that the Turkish Government had previously refused a Greek request that these matters be referred to the World Court...
...prize-winning letters will not be published. But copies of them will be sent to anyone upon request...
...Professor William Zebina Ripley of Harvard called at the White House by request to discuss with President Coolidge the possible evils of the general issuance of non-voting stock in industry. The Professor said that he did not see that there was much which the national government could do, as the stock is issued under state corporation laws...
...dark lady in a crinoline hoopskirt and drop-shoulder gown with a wreath in her hair. The scene of the hanging was in the oval room on the ground floor, under the famous Blue Room used for formal receptions. The gentleman was Robert Todd Lincoln. At his request the portrait of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln had been painted by a relative, Miss Kate Helm, from photographs taken in Civil War days...
Observers winked an eye reflecting upon the oil beneath the surface of Irak and remembering Colonel Amery's passionate insistence before the League Council that it should "request" Britain to conclude the treaty which continues the British regime in Irak for another quarter of a century (TIME, Dec. 28, THE LEAGUE...