Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Poincaré of France. They talked, it was reported, about the long unratified Mellon-Berenger debt-settlement agreement'. Through Agent Gilbert, Mr. Mellon explained that he wished this matter could be settled before the Mellon term at the Treasury is over; that the U. S. Senate cannot very well ratify until it has some notion that the French Parliament is well disposed. But Mr. Mellon got back no encouragement from M. Poincaré. There was, he learned, no chance of ratification by the present French Parliament. Mr. Mellon continued to rest. For his part, M. Poincaré hoped...
...tendering you herewith my resignation as chairman of our finance committee, as a member thereof and as a member of the executive committee. . . . ". . . It is desirable for the public to know, as everybody in General Motors should appreciate, that the corporation is not, and in the nature of things cannot be, in politics...
Said Sir Hugh Percy Allen, Director of the Royal College of Music: "At every turn, wherever we go, music is made a stop-gap to fill the silences which today humans cannot face. People are terrified of silences, so they have music and I consider it a great insult to music." Here the musical knight drew breath and a jazz-orchestra began bleating in the next room. Said he: "That finishes it, and I sit down...
...people realize how difficult it is for a young woman to win her way, her living, on Broadway, even when she is gifted artistically. Broadway, whether in opera or musical comedy, and I have sung in both, is so full of promises, but one cannot exist on that...
Last week, at the Hotel Carlton in Paris, occurred an incident that made Tilden almost popular among the Gauls. Drawings for the Davis Cup interzone finals between Italy and the U. S. were about to be held. "Where is Tilden?" said a French official, "we cannot go on with the draw unless the American captain is present...