Word: britain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that surveying repaired President and Prime Minister. The world press waited. Not only had it no "details" to report but it could not even see the two talkers. Long, inspired screeds were written against the emotional background of the moment, establishing only two concrete facts: 1) Britain and the U. S. would agree to keep their fleets equal, the degree of potency probably being dependent upon what Britain considers her world-wide requirements. 2) Britain, with the U. S. concurring, would issue an invitation to France, Italy and Japan to discuss at London the reduction of all fleets so that...
...telephone tinkled. Secretary George Akerson answered it. His Chief was calling from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Now, said the President, it could be told: he and Prime Minister MacDonald had agreed to have the latter issue invitations to France, Italy and Japan to discuss naval reductions with Britain and the U. S. in London on Jan. 20. The invitations would go out on the morrow (see p. 27). Like most momentous news it was very simple. There was nothing more to say - yet - about the historic "conversations." So the President helped the world press...
These scholarships, which correspond to the Rhodes Scholarships for American university students at Oxford, were presented by Mrs. Henry P. Davison in 1922. They are in memory of her husband, and have as their aim the fostering of good will between the United States and Britain...
Startling was the name, for it signified the merger of two of the famed four "D" banks. Dedi becomes the only billion dollar bank† outside of the U. S. and Great Britain, controlling, some say, over one-third of the deposits of the seven biggest banks in Germany...
...late great Robert Todd Lincoln who died last year. Modest, retiring, he gained fame through his deeds rather than his name. Longtime head of Pullman Co., he was also director of many a Chicago corporation. He was onetime Secretary of War, onetime Ambassador to Great Britain...