Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theory is practicable, however, Captain Creed has at least made an excellent beginning, in attempting to further mutual understanding on the part of Great Britain and the United States. If world affairs are to be set in anything like proper order in the near future, a prerequisite is Anglo-American co-operation. The chances that this can be brought about through international sport are far greater between two countries whose national psychology and standards of judgment are so closely related, than between peoples whose points of similarity and consequent opportunities for sympathetic appreciation are less numerous and more fundamentally limited...
...Royal Dutch-Shell oil combine, greatest competitor of the Standard in the international petroleum field, owns oil properties all over the world. In 1919 the Anglo-Dutch group decided to invade the U. S. field in a large way and purchased 130,869 shares of the Union Oil Co., through its subsidiary, the Shell-Union, for about $21,000,000. This, however, constituted only 26% of Union's stock, and Sir Henri Deterding, head of Royal Dutch, resolved to obtain 51% to control the Company. But several large Union stockholders, alarmed at the foreign invasion, organized the Union...
Corosu: "The Anglo-Japanese alliance now is past history, while our relations with the United States and Russia are assuming a grave aspect. At such a juncture a Franco-Japanese rapprochement is highly desirable...
...Significance. Mr. Belloc is closer to France than he is to the English. The book is accurately calculated to weaken the Anglo-American association. This may be the way to keep the peace. Or it may not. The book is an absorbing picture of America in the eyes of an acute European...
...pound pugilistic champ of Chile, fell before the bruising, battering attack of Floyd Johnson, 199 pound lowan. Romero, his face a bloody smear, fell in the seventh round, .lay prone while the timer tailed off: ten seconds. Whether he was really "out" or whether he could not understand the Anglo-Saxon numerals as shouted by the referee are questions which were afterwards debated...