Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kellogg Pact to make it the basis for cutting her cruiser fleet from 70 to 50 ship?, which she is now ready to do according to an official statement earlier in the week by First Lord of the Admiralty Albert V. Alexander. The MacDonald memorandum threw cold water on the Tardieu proposal for a Mediterranean pact, and sidestepped the French project for a stronger League of Nations with the remark that the Kellogg Pact and the League Covenant may be considered "complementary." Ships...
Thumbing one's teeth is, of course, much more polite than thumbing one's nose. At the second Hague Reparations Conference, last week, Chancellor Philip Snowden of the British Exchequer thumbed only his teeth at his adversaries from across the Rhine, even-tempered German Foreign Minister Julius Curtius and meek Finance Minister Paul Moldenhaur...
...highly complex problem in comparison, perhaps to be solved with the famed "Hoover Yardstick" (TIME, Sept. 23). Exactly what this is the Engineer-President has never publicly explained; and the Sea Lords of the British Admiralty to whom it has been privately explained have never been enthusiastic. But last week Ramsay MacDonald said in his hearty ringing way: "We shall deal with every class of warship, from dreadnoughts to submarines! Great Britain, with the full consent of the Admiralty up to now, is prepared to make proposals which will mean a considerable reduction in naval programs...
...Gold and Silver plating was dexterously applied last week to the ornate microphone through which George V will be heard on Jan. 21 opening the Naval Conference over a radio network which will practically put the whole world within five inches of His Majesty's lips and beard...
Imperial Prostration. By way of kowtowing and prostrating himself before the most powerful oligarchy of modern times-the dry Senators of the U. S., whose votes will be needed to ratify any Naval Pact which may be made-the King-Emperor directed last week that the Refreshment Room in St. James's Palace shall serve no intoxicants for the duration of the Conference...