Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afraid you are right. ...* You have finished with that bugaboo of conventional respectability which is today hobbling hypocritical legislators who vote 'dry' and live 'wet.' This to you is nauseating. This gives me the courage to believe that the present disastrous and demoralizing conditions cannot last into the period when some of you are representing your constituents in Congress...
...Moreau, governor of the Bank of France. Surprising credence was achieved by a wild rumor that Mr. Young contemplated the resignation of his friend and protege, Seymour Parker Gilbert, as Agent-General of Reparations and had in mind as his successor M. Moreau. On the assumption that Germany really cannot pay as much as France is sure she can, it might be well for the French government's chief financial adviser to find that out for himself in Berlin. Persistent rumors apart, there was no reason for supposing that Mr. Young leaned toward any such assumption...
...flamed up in the French press last week, when Dr. Schacht as president of the German Reichsbank raised its discount rate from 6½% to 7½%. The inference drawn excitedly in Paris was that the Reichsbank w?s trying to give the impression that German finances are already overstrained and cannot bear even the present reparations burden...
Laboring in the wilderness on a tract of land eight by 27 miles in dimensions, the doughty Mennonites have already constructed 14 adobe villages. They enjoy local autonomy and cannot be called upon to take up arms. Among themselves they speak German, are rapidly forgetting the English they learned in Canada, and are slowly picking up a little Spanish. At present the Mennonite Colony is almost the only pure Democracy in America...
...Notwithstanding the intelligent censorship which Chile has established over plays and cinemas, parents cannot be sure that their children will see a type of performance designed to improve their morals and character. The average modern drama not only lacks good taste and educational art entirely but generally depicts robberies, disorders and the baser passions. The Municipality of Santiago will present in our new Children's Theatre plays especially written for children only. There will be some free performances so that the children of the poor, as well as the wealthy, may enjoy this wholesome influence...