Word: ans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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H. R. H. may have taken comfort in the fact it would be hard to find a less murderous Communist than Ambassador Sokolnikov. Born in 1888, son of a moderately well-to-do bourgeois family, he was exiled for socialist tendencies, went to Paris, where he graduated from the Sorbonne...
Such, fairly and frankly set forth by an honest, candid man, is the train of thought by which 99 Britons out of 100 have arrived at the belief that it is right for them to have a larger navy than the U. S., which has so many less merchant ships...
The Nigerian blacks have been in an ugly, riotous mood of late, due to the Government's unpopular attempts to collect a head tax on their woolly polls. At Itu, Nigeria, the local British river steamer was chased by tax-indignant blacks in war canoes. "With regard to the...
"Tiens, Messieurs!" he cried with an engaging smile, "ne tirez pas au pianiste! Don't shoot the piano player! Il fait de son mieux. He's doing the best he can. That, gentlemen," he added confidentially to his somewhat mystified hearers, "is an American argument. That is what...
In Berlin it is sometimes popularly supposed that the titanic rivals in U. S. finance are J. P. Morgan & Co. and Dillon, Read & Co. Last week, pink-cheeked, socialistic, optimistic Finance Minister Rudolf Hilfer ding found himself short of cash for year-end budget requirements. He hastily sought to arrange...