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...Showdown Sessions. Members of the International Chamber point with most pride to its General Resolution of 1923 and claim with some justice that it gave an impetus which eventually produced the Dawes Plan. Last week in a secret showdown the night before the Conference adjourned Mr. Strawn and others of the steering committee managed to agree on a General Resolution for 1931 which was quietly adopted next day, embracing three major resolutions...
...final showdown words did not count. Decisive was the Liberal-Laborite ("Lib-Lab") Pact made just before Parliament recessed between Scot MacDonald and Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, frequently rumored since to have broken down...
...their platforms and nominated their men for a Presidential election. And while the Regulars are kept in a state of anxious uncertainty, much fruitful threatening, much boring-from-within may be accomplished; so much, indeed, ,that to Insurgent leaders like Norris and Borah, who could be sure in any showdown of retaining their satisfying Senate committee chairmanships, the formation of a new party may seem unnecessary after...
...March must come a showdown. Though Argentina is prosperous, though President Irigoyen's Radical Party has a virtual strangle hold on the country, half of the Chamber of Deputies must be re-elected at the March elections. Much of unique Irigoyen's strength comes from the country districts and Argentine farmers are glowering under a bad wheat crop, a crop which left them with an exportable surplus of less than 2,000,000 tons (66.6 million bushels), about half as much as the Ministry of Agriculture's early predictions...
...ever once known such a showdown was coming if he had it to do over again how easily he could have put by more to his credit and made his balance comfortably larger...