Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Enfield rifles, model of 1917; 5,000,000 rounds, calibre .30, ammunition; and eight DH4 airplanes, the terms of the sale being one-half cash and one-half within 30 days. These articles do not cover the entire list requested originally, but the Mexican Government finds they will answer its present requirements...
Secretary of War Weeks intimated that he might be able to answer most of the questions of investigators in regard to General Wood's administration, but that as regarded Leonard Wood, Jr., the Secretary was not concerned with the "mothers-in-law, the cousins, or the distant relations of persons in the military service of the country...
...this question the people of the country are asked to vote "yes" or "no." Irreconcilable Republican politicians immediately told the press that as far as they were concerned the answer is "no." The alignment of opinion almost immediately seemed to be along the same cleft which divided the country on the League of Nations a few years ago. It remains to be seen whether the people, like politicians and the greater part of the press, will follow this old alignment...
...Chinese Government once again protested against paying the Boxer indemnity in gold to France (TIME, Nov. 19). In an answer to a note from the eight Powers which were parties to the Protocol of 1901 regulating payments of the Boxer indemnity, the Chinese Government declined to accept the interpretation of the words "gold debt" as meaning that payment must be made in gold. Accordingly the Government insisted that France must accept payment in French currency without compensation for the low rate of exchange...
...innovation in future years depends, of course, upon the reception it receives and indications are that it will be very favorable. Letters have been sent to all the regional vice-presidents of the Associated Harvard Clubs asking their opinions on the subject, and in every case in which an answer has been received, there has been great enthusiasm for the project. Form letters have also been sent to all the Harvard clubs in the country, explaining the project and its purposes...