Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...display of obstinacy which has thus far characterized the present conference of the League indicates that nationalism still continues to bar the progress of international cooperation. The question of enlarging the council has proved a serious stumbling block. By promising Germany a permanent seat in the select little coterie of the inner chamber, the Locarno signatories felt that they were merely restoring their erstwhile foe to her former place among the European powers...
...clock, Professor Edgell is beginning in History 7 one of the many series of lectures which I always am tempted to attend in block, contrary as that may be to the fundamental principles of my existence. In Emerson J, today. Thursday and Saturday, he will lecture on sixteenth century Italian literature, the period that produced Tasso and Ariosto...
...probable that the Democrats, who are still nursing their wrath at the remarks directed at them by the White House spokesman, will be glad to take advantage of this opportunity to revenge themselves upon the Administration. With prospects of facting the same unholy alliance which has proved a stumbling block for his so many times, it looks as if the occasion which the President has chosen to domonstrate his ability, to make the Senate behave is not a particularly auspicious...
Washington that Chicago is to have a new hotel, a $5,000,000 structure with 2,000 rooms, 25 stories high; down the block and across the street from The Blackstone, at the corner of Seventh St. and Wabash Ave.; and to be named The Coolidge. The President did not comment, but ardent Republicans felt it was an appropriate honor. The hotel is designed by its builders to be a moneymaker, not over-eloborate...
...Blair & Co., Inc., and the Chase Securities Corporation were authors of a transaction which if executed entirely in cash, will fall only a million short of the record-setting Dodge buy by Dillon, Read & Co. They took over a block of nearly 300,000 shares (55%) of the Associated Oil Co., second in rank only to the Standard Oil Co. of California on the Pacific coast. The price agreed on was $59 cash, or $145,000,000 if all stockholders demanded cash instead of exchange securities, about $165,000,000 if exchange alone was made. Associated Oil, owned by Pacific...