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Recently, the German People's Party (semi-Monarchists) withdrew its two members-Herr Richter, Minister of Finance, Herr Doktor Boelitz, Minister of Education from the Socialist Government of Prussia, headed by Herr Otto Braun. Premier Braun took over the vacant portfolios...
Last session, the House passed 1) the Ford plan and sent it to the Senate. The Senate failed to act on the bill before it adjourned last June. Before Congress opened again, Mr. Ford withdrew his offer-so it was obvious that the bill had to be amended. It was brought before the Senate, amended by substituting 2) the Norris plan. After a month's debate, the Senate amended the bill again by substituting 3) the Underwood plan (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week, in the course of two days, the Senate proceeded to tie up the measure in knots...
...clock, there was a half an hour's recess while the President and Mrs. Coolidge ate a hurried lunch. The diplomatic group withdrew to attend the usual breakfast given by the Secretary of State at the Pan-American Union...
...agree with anybody; all presented compromise plans; none accepted them, and there the matter rested. After U. S. Bishop Charles H. Brent had withdrawn from the Conference, disgusted, and one of the Indian delegates had been withdrawn, Japanese Delegate M. Sugimura declared he could stand no more of it, withdrew from the subcommittee. The Conference went on bravely, agreed to take up the American proposal first of all at a meeting in January, adjourned...
From the library edition of his works Mr. George Moore withdrew his book of criticism, Impressions and Opinions, substituted the present volume of conversations "to revive a form in which criticism can be conducted more agreeably than in the essay." To 121 Ebury Street, London, he invites his friends: Walter de la Mare, John Freeman, Granville Barker, Edmund Gosse, many others. Graciously, in the candlelight, by his comfortable hearth, he spins for them the shining web of his prose. Hardy is damned; Balzac exalted; one learns that the writing of George Eliot is "without pleasure," that boiled chicken has never...