Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Back in Washington one morning before breakfast the President greeted Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Adams, and six Admirals?all of whom sat down to eat, to talk about naval reductions. Next day the President sent a new note (contents secret) to England about cruisers...
...that," said Commodore Trunnion. "Why not?" asked his wife. "Because I'm not mad," said the Commodore. "Prove it," said Mrs. Trunnion. And this he could not do. Instead, he put her off his ship, made her walk the plank in fact, and went back to his old way of living with Hatchways, his mate, and Fawcett, an able seaman...
...looked as though the breakdown was at hand," he said. "The French had ordered a special train to take them back to Paris, Briand made an impassioned plea to me to put the interests of Europe before a paltry financial consideration. I agreed. 'But you ask us/ I said, 'to accept half our just claim. We cannot do that.' The conference seemed...
...only 60% of our claims. I wrote our refusal and the heads of what we must have on a half sheet of note paper. We waited half an hour. Later he returned. He had advanced the offer 100,000 pounds a quarter of an hour back. Now he came with 50,000 more. He said that it was all he could...
...opening day, Dr. Gumpert told of a half-starved seamstress who had had no clients since her face became covered with large nauseating warts. She is on the dole now-a charge upon the Government- but when the Bureau has dealt with the warts she should soon win back her profitable trade. Recalling that Berlin has a standing idle army of some 200,000 unemployed, Dr. Gumpert cried: "Look at them! How many are ugly-needlessly! Thousands will have work when we have helped them...