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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Mr. Dawes removed his pipe to speak, his words were still those of a dollar doctor, a caustic budgetarian. In words scarcely those of a diplomatist, he announced loudly enough for every foreign country to hear him, that if the Dominican Republic adopted his commission's recommendations it would...
The basic question involved is a large one, one which will surely confront America for the next few decades. As yet we have been unable to decide whether we shall have active government control of business, and in the few cases where we do have it, how much power the...
"There are two ways in which the commission can proceed further. The first is for each delegation to hold up the concessions it is prepared to make until the last minute, seeking in return to obtain other advantages for value received.
Next day the commission took Ambassador Gibson's cue by voting to omit "trained reserves" from any plan for the general reduction of armaments which they may succeed in drafting. Since the Versailles treaty prohibits Germany from having any "trained reserves"?whereas the other Powers may now have as...
Readers of metropolitan newspapers last week observed a new and particularly acrimonious development in the current advertising disagreement between tobacco & sugar, cigarets & candies, Lucky Strikes & Sweets. Begun last winter, when American Tobacco Co. initiated its famed "Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet" series, the publicity war has already...