Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reparations bill. It is but natural that Dr. Schacht should cast eyes upon these resources, that he should remember East Prussia, now cut off from Germany by the "corridor" which Poland was given to connect her with the sea. On the other hand the "Iron Man" might have had common sense enough not to wave two red rags before two bulls. That was exactly what he did by so much as mentioning the "corridor" to France (friend of Poland) or alluding to "colo-nies" in the presence of Britain (which holds East Africa as a mandate). Not only...
...disclosure of intolerable conditions among the starving miners (TIME, Feb. 11). "It is thanks to him and his example," said Mr. Cook, "that I am able to come here without contaminating any one of you [Tories]. His conduct and attitude have shown that all mankind has qualities in common, one man with every other. He has proved to the miner and his wife and children that in this moment of great suffering they are not forgotten...
...investigation that the terrace bulged because expansion joints and drains had not been properly tended, that practically nothing had been spent for maintenance, which should be some $67,000 per year. He showed that the rarest marbles are expected to chip when turned for columns, that clever repairs are common, not criminal. He stressed the Goodhue integrity, moral and esthetic, which attended the project. Weighty also was other defense evidence. It seemed altogether likely that the report to the legislature would strongly favor the defendants. Architect Goodhue studied all styles. He mastered traditional Gothic only to depart from...
...extremely raucous, with President David A. Schulte centre of the storm. Hecklers maintained that Schulte directors were selling their Schulte stock and that Wall Street knew that Schulte earnings were shrinking before Schulte stockholders had any suspicion that all was not well. To them Mr. Schulte replied that no common dividends might be paid for the rest of the year, that if cut pricing prevailed there might be no dividends for the next five years, that one of his stores, fighting the devil with fire, had cut 15? cigarets to 11?, that "retailers are going to make a legitimate profit...
...Influence of Popular Italian Comedy upon Shakespere be Detected" will be treated by Professor Oscar J. Campbell Jr., of Michigan University at a Modern Language Conference to be held in the Common Room of Conant Hall on Monday evening at 8 o'clock...