Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Desperate Alternative. In Mexico, U. S. land and oil owners were in a desperate quandary. The new laws require them to "apply for confirmation" of their oil titles before Jan. 1, 1927, and accept "concessions" to operate their properties for not more than 50 years from the time they first began to do so. This form of "title con firmation" perfectly illustrates what was meant by the Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee when he said: "Mexico is seeking... to change the nature of property. . .in Mexico. . . ." If the oil titles are not thus "confirmed...
Will he refuse to have his titles confirmed, suffer seizure and trust the U. S. Government to secure for him redress; or will he accept a 50-year lease in exchange for a title in perpetuity, on the assump tion that the U. S. Government never will secure for him what it considers his rights...
...little French play of one act in which two old fathers conspire to marry the daughter of one to the son of the other. The key line is classic, "Marriage without obstacles isn't tempting to two such young simpletons." So the fathers fight, the children refuse to accept the feud as final separation, and Romeo-and-Juliet-like they defy the quarrel. The young lady is being abducted, her lover saves her. The fathers relent. All is forgiven. Curtain...
...national loss resulting from the British Coal Strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.) was estimated last week to equal ?40 ($200) for every family in the British Isles. None the less the 750,000 miners who were still on strike last week, refused by a 100,000 majority to accept the settlement negotiated by their Executive Committee with Premier Baldwin (TiME, Nov. 15), after their delegates' congress had empowered the committee to make peace "on the best terms to be had." When the miners thus sensationally repudiated last week both their delegates' congress and executive committee, the committee...
There a newsgatherer sat last week as the Marshal reminisced of the days when his title was Generalissimo of the Allied Forces. Puffing slowly at his meerschaum he said: "You know, I never commanded in the way people imagine. What I did was to bring those about me to accept my opinions, which is quite a different thing. . . . To command is nothing. . . . What is necessary always is to get a good understanding with those with whom one has to deal, to understand them and get them to understand you. That is the whole secret, not only of successful command...