Word: answering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emergency Fleet Corporation (actual operator of the Government merchant marine) estimated he would need $18,000,000 to cover losses next year. The Shipping Board, with more grandiose ideas, raised this estimate to $22,000,000, and tacked on $540,000 for its own expenses. General Lord made answer in effect: "You can expect not more than $15,300,000 all told." Admiral Palmer took Director Lord's ultimatum philosophically. The Board itself, more volatile, was expected to be less resigned, more irate at the reduction. The form that the first protest of the Board took was a statement...
...Senator J. Hamilton Lewis (Illinois Democrat) sailed last week for Europe seeking new pastures. He said he was going to Geneva to represent before the League of Nations "a foreign power" which wishes to negotiate a loan for $100,000,000. Reporters asked what nations needed loans. Answer: "Poland, France, Belgium, Italy, Rumania and Greece...
...Free Silver"-for nigh on 29 years it has had the freedom of the political grave. But how did the late William J. Bryan, its great proponent, regard it at the time of his death? The answer is contained in a letter written by Mr. Bryan two months ago to the New York Journal (Hearst) and recently published...
...comte de Fleurian, French Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, by M. Philippe Berthelot of the Quai d'Orsay, and by M. Fromageot, French international jurist. Then began conversations between the French Foreign Minister and the British Foreign Secretary to decide upon an answer to Germany's recent note relative to the proposed Rhine Treaty which is to guarantee the status quo on the frontier between France and Germany (TIME, June 22). For this had M. Briand braved La Manche (the English Channel...
...have not hesitated to attribute the current British business depression to this "high money policy." Prof. John Maynard Keynes in particular has assailed the gold resumption as a cause of unemployment and slackness in the British export trade. The cut in the Bank rate may be interpreted as the answer of the Baldwin Government to these charges. Yet undoubtedly the rate reduction has been really due to more serious factors, and has been justified by the strengthened gold position of the Bank of England...