Word: amide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alien Property. The property of enemy aliens, seized during the War, still lies in the hands of the Alien Property Custodian. Bills for disposing of it, and for settling the cognate problem-satisfaction of claims of U. S. citizens against Germany-languished amid disputations in committee...
...Bled, Jugoslavia, the foreign ministers of Czechoslovakia (Benes), Roumania (Mitilineu) and Jugoslavia (Nintchitch) assembled amid the awful diplomatic secrecy characteristic of all meetings of the Little Entente.* The announced agenda included discussion of: 1) The European situation-presumably reference to the growing ascendancy of Italy† as the protector of the Little Entente and the coincident ambiguous position of France in that role. Notorious are Mussolini's secret conferences with Jugoslav Premier Nintchitch, his furtherance of a Roumanian loan at Rome, his diplomatic feelers into the Eastern Balkans, notably signalized last week by the bestowal upon Greek Dictator-President...
...Amid the disheartening League developments of last week two factors of cheer were much touted by Council members in statements to the press...
...Hours. The expectantly awaited informal miner-owner conference (TIME, June 14) assembled in London last week. In 3½ hours it reached a state of complete deadlock on all points, adjourned amid recriminations...
...Kabul, the self-proclaimed King and his well-armed and warlike people command all the northern passes through the Hindu Kush-the highways trod by Alexander the Great, by Genghis Khan. Though the city of Kabul is an unredeemed stench hole, the adjacent palaces of potent nobles lie amid perfumed gardens, nestle below the snow-clad stupendous Hindu Kush...