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...Pacts. When three other statesmen?Briand, Chamberlain, Stresemann?carried through his idea and each won a Nobel Peace Prize, he contentedly retired. Germany had been brought back into the comity of nations and he did not care who got the credit. In the same spirit Viscount d'Abernon recently con- sented to head the unofficial British Trade Mission to South America which was champagned at El Jockey Club last week. For him it is another adventure in conciliation. He will try to win back as much as possible of the Argentine trade which Great Brit ain has lost since...
...opulent estancieros whose ranches cover most of Argentina the smartest rendezvous on earth is El Jockey Club in sophisticated Buenos Aires. One night last week the sumptuously baroque club was con fiesta for some jovial Britons. Champagne popped and sizzled. Frankly the Britons admitted they were out for Argentine trade. Hospitably they were toasted and cheered. "Welcome! Welcome to Argentina!" cried Dr. Joaquin Sanchez de Anchorena, oldtime toastmaster of El Club. "I cannot praise too highly British achievement in stock-raising and horse-breeding. Rest assured we are ready to give preferential attention to the aims of your economic mission...
...have no sense of order and discipline. That is why they browbeat us. . . . Hundreds of years of degenerate culture have made the Chinese an effete race. Intellectually and spiritually Utopian and physically weak?that is what the world at large considers us. ... Fortunately Russia is in no position to con-duct extensive armed aggression against us. . . . We must wait and be prepared...
...bank. The operation of such a merged unit is called branch banking. The Twin City organism will practice not branch but chain banking. These two types of banking are not only quite distinct, they are considered by some to be opposed, and there is a hot debate pro and con as to the merits of each system...
...great manufacturing region of England. The members may or may not ride, have horses; their chief vocation is the manufacturing of woolen goods. Either Senator Smoot was intentionally misleading, or unintentionally ignorant. It would be equally as bad for some Englishman to state that Congress was a meeting of Con...