Word: ams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jonkheer Loudon persisted to the last in refusing to reconvene the Disarmament Commission and scathingly declared that, even though plenipotentiaries of all the Great Powers would not join with him in a secret show-down parley, "I am still ready to confer with the representatives of four powers, or three...
Insidious persons, continued "Jix," are proposing even to regulate the number of a man's children by law. "I cannot," said Sir William with a wry smile, "I cannot help feeling rather for the father of a family, who has got almost up to the legal number of children...
"As I understand it, Mr. Hargreaves suggests that certain persons whom he calls bankers, a very elastic term, should have seats. That is a point which has been debated on and off for a hundred years and so far as I am aware no argument has ever been brought forward...
While sipping a glass of fine tawny sherry, the Very Reverend Chaplain-in-ordinary said: "It would be nonsensical for anyone to suppose [sip] that I am now encouraging drunkenness [sip].
Dr. Van Dyke issued a smashing reply to Dr. Walker: "May a humble Presbyterian, who has himself held the honorable office of Moderator in that church be permitted to ask politely by what right or authority Dr. Walker assumes this 'Temporal Dominion' in the United States? ... I have not the...