Word: ans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"There was in the village I come from an old man who was a very devout Catholic. The nearest chapel was six miles from the village, and in order to worship he had to hire a trap-it was before the days of motor cars. It cost him six shillings...
Negative Decision. The bankers were agreed last week that the B. I. S. (Bank for International Settlements) shall not issue notes or create credits, shall merely transfer, distribute and mobilize existing credits. It will be a clearing house for Reparations, not an international bank of issue, not a competitor with...
Stumpers. There was no agreement last week as to the city in which the B. I. S. shall be set up. The British continued to clamor for London, the Latins remained violently opposed. The delegates were also stumped to find an adequate authority for setting up the B. I. S...
"Canada is the greatest doctor on earth. . . . Is this Canada, or Paradise? . . . Oh, my friends. . . . Ah, my brothers. . . ." He kept it up all week, did James Ramsay MacDonald. Canadians, pleased, flattered, responded with such hospitable fervor that at last the Prime Minister of Great Britain mock-seriously cried: "Your kindness...
An apt orator, Scot MacDonald left his listeners with an anecdote.