Word: cancellations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is a sketch of the reasons which inspire the Japanese Foreign Office to obtain from Russia the northern half of the island known as Sakhalin and Karafuto. And in return for such apparent magnanimity, Japan is willing to cancel Russia's political debt* to her and joyfully accord her de jure recognition...
British Action. At a Cabinet meeting in London, it was decided to cancel the Mission of Sir Thomas Beaumont Hohler, to hand over British interests to the care of the U. S., to recall Mr. Cummins. Following these acts, Premier MacDonald made a detailed statement on the situation in the House of Commons. Said...
...sympathy for those who suffered losses, have decided to return to the insurees a full year's premium. This payment will, in the aggregate, represent a very substantial sum. The form which the return of the premiums will take will probably be that of willingness to cancel the payments due on the policies affected...
...committee does censure the proposal by legislation to cancel that agreement precipitately and peremptorily without any of the courtesies customary in international procedure among friendly nations, without any proper notification, without any opportunity for a neighborly conference in which representatives of the two Governments could examine the situation, without a word or even a gesture of courtesy toward the other party to a mutual agreement, and without allowing any time for adjustment after the passage of the Act, although such a grace is granted to immigrants from Europe...
...oarsmen have not engaged in any Freshman activity up to the present time. As another illustration of the fallacy of blaming athletics for failures in college work, he said that the Yale gymnastic team, thinking it had a match with the University this year, had written asking to cancel it because all their men were on probation. "Here is an activity", said Major Moore, "that does not take the time and effort in training that is required in most major sports, and yet the result is disastrous. My contention is that the blame cannot be placed upon athletics...