Word: consents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white race has dominated China for years, and it is only right that the Chinese be allowed to determine their own policies the same as do other nations of the world. For years the tax in China has been regularly 5 percent, and to change this the consent of 13 nations has been necessary. It is easy to see that with such conditions to meet, the country has advanced but slowly...
Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol has a businesslike way of getting along with Turks. The State Department published, last week, some notes exchanged between the Admiral, as High Commissioner to Turkey, and the Turkish Foreign Minister, oily, wiley, bespectacled Tewfik Rushdi Bey. The notes continue, by avowed mutual consent, the modus vivendi between the U. S. and Turkish State Departments which has to be patched up from time to time, because the U. S. Senate refuses (TIME, Jan. 24) to ratify the treaty of Lausanne which would affirm U. S. recognition of the Turkish Government...
...notes exchanged last week state: 1) that the former modus vivendi, recently expired, is extended by mutual consent to June 1, 1928; 2) that the U. S. High Commissioner will be supplanted by a U. S. ambassador and a consul "as soon as possible...
...several of the 48 states, the reform-urgers might have crusaded against even more lenient laws. In five southern states, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi and Virginia, twelve-year-old girls may take the marriage vow with their parents' consent; in New Hampshire 13 years' experience of this world is considered sufficient for wedlock...
Tommy?A cute comedy on marriage in spite of parents' consent...