Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...departure, not for a Mediterranean yachting cruise this time but for the distant U. S., signalized the finality and success of the efforts of his fellow delegate, Owen D. Young. The press of all nations concerned joined in thoroughgoing applause for the onetime New York plowboy who, real author of the so-called Dawes Plan of 1924 and patient chairman of the so-called Second Dawes Committee, had at last had his name written into the history of world finance as author of the now-agreed-to Young Plan...
...could the Herreros not chase the Dutchmen? "Not a ship among them," explained Silas, the uncle of this book's author. "That has been the downfall of our race...
...interest. The questions of natural monopolies, restrictions of trade, and the new position of America as a creditor nation are all discussed, and a whole section is devoted to review of the economic situation in the leading countries and their probable place in the postwar world of commerce. The author's long experience has enabled him to enliven the text with numerous anecdotes and illustrations that make the book not only informative but interesting reading as well...
...preliminary hearing of the suit instituted by E. F. Craig '25, author of a large part of the music heard in recent Hasty Pudding shows was held yesterday in Femberton Court, Boston. Craig is suing Charles Homeyher Inc. for $25,000 because of their negligence in failing to copyright the song "The Moment I Laid Eyes on You" a hit from "Laff it Off", the Hasty Pudding Show...
Most obvious of the indications of the lack of sympathy between this author and the modern world is his vocabulary. It includes the frequent use of archaisms and unusual words such as "rathe," "sonant," "unimpasted," which are not found in the average abridged dictionary. The attempt to recover the idiom of another age so deliberate that the writer cannot have realized the many-times repeated truth that the Elizabethtn poets were not works with "thees" and "dosts" and "wilts." Among their contemporaries the words were in good and familiar usage, and a writer three hundred years later is not justified...