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...American Development Company (the Chester Concession's legal name), the U. S. State Department issued a categorical denial that the U. S. had given the concessionaries promise of moral or political endorsement. Neither the Department nor its officers took any part in the negotiations for the concession. The sole concern of the American Government was for the Open Door...
...July 19 and 20 at Wesley an Chapel (Methodist) in Seneca Falls. It was the first meeting of its kind. In those days women faced many disadvantages. Their husbands could beat them provided it was with a stick "no thicker than a man's thumb." Husbands had the sole custody of children. Except among the Quakers, women did not engage in any public activities. (For an excellent brief treatment of the situation and developments at this time, see The Nation, July...
...Archbishop of Canterbury supported the bill, because it provided for the dissolution of marriage on the sole ground of adultery...
...Washington Navy Yard, President Harding, members of the Cabinet and prominent naval officers inspected the Langley, the navy's sole aircraft carrier. The party was transported in the great airplane elevators from one deck to the other, and the President inspected with much interest the " fiddle strings" landing gear used to halt the airplanes when alighting on the upper deck. As a result of his visit, Mr. Harding is said to be more strongly than ever in favor of converting some of the navy's battle cruisers into aircraft carriers...
...Kenelm Digby" is a rare delight, with its recipes and its appreciation of old quaintness. . We should like, for our own part, to see more of Sir Kenelm in the future--and we would be curious to observe what Morley would do with, say, John Parkinson's "Paradisi in Sole", which is a treasure-trove if there ever were...