Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With nice diplomatic mummery the game was played last week of pretending that British Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson was sending out from London invitations to the great naval powers. He received the Quaker-Scotch text from Washington, dutifully had four fair copies made, despatched them to Washington, Paris, Rome, Tokyo. A further bit of mummery was to delay publication of the U. S. State Department's "acceptance" until a few hours after Scot MacDonald left Washington (see above...
...note invites powers to participate in a conference at London in the third week of January next, bids them come prepared to discuss the limitations of all types of surface war boats, the abolition of the submarine. Japan immediately signified acceptance, though her formal reply to "Uncle Arthur" was delayed. France and Italy, who rely on undersea boats as their chief naval arm, were expected to send acceptances containing strongest reservations against even discussing abolitions of subwarfare...
Leaving Yale his Sophomore year (1926), Arthur David Schulte had been made vice president of Park and Tilford, Schulte-controlled. Last year it was announced Park and Tilford would form a chain of retail grocery stores. Son Schulte remained a vice president, became a director of other Schulte companies, but no Park and Tilford expansion took place...
Perhaps the most beautiful of the volumes being shown is the "Story of King Arthur and the Round Table", printed by William Copland in 1557. There is only one other complete copy of this book in existence; and that rests now in the British Museum. Printed first in ordinary black and white, the front page of each copy of the work was then illuminated in brilliant colors by hand...
...raised a vigorous clamor last spring when their institution seemed about to be dissolved. Last week they were cheering, for friends were raising them $3,000,000 to build a 21-story hospital. President of their board of trustees and chief of the money-gathering squadrons is Mrs. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, wife of the onetime (1909-19) president of the National City Bank, since last month the world's largest. They have six children...