Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permitted to reside and do business in Turkey. This is sure to cause France a good deal of concern on account of her large trade interest in the Near East. A request for the island of Castellorizo may also be unwelcome to Italy. Britain, however, seems to be content to settle the Mosul question by direct negotiations, as suggested by Turkey. The Turkish proposal to lift the economic clauses out of the Treaty and reserve them for future discussion, may, however, prove to be a serious difficulty...
Norway, under similar pressure from Spain, refused further to modify its prohibition law, passed in 1919, which permits the sale of liquor with a 12% alcoholic content...
That the new product intends to join this famous crew seems likely; whether it will win fame with them, or pass unnoticed, depends on its own merits. At any rate, the authors are ambitious; not content to be called "Another Eight", or "A Second Eight More", or "A Third Eight", they brazenly proclaim themselves the "Eight Most Harvard Poets"--no less. Who these superlative artists are, remains to be revealed...
...that the circus in Washington is closed until next season, its habitual audiences will have to content themselves with reading and rereading the souvenir program. The Congressional Record is a curious, comprehensive collection of fact and fiction. Encyclopedic in character, it contains the Book of Knowledge, the Outlines of History and Science, the Bible, Shakspere, the dictionary, and the Sears-Roebuck catalogue. Though it is supposed to give, word for word, the speeches in both Houses, their speakers would hardly recognize them. Vituperative Congressmen who lose their tempers and sense of fitness of things while on their feet, and ignorant...
George Harvey, American Ambassador, made a speech at a Pilgrims' dinner in London. He said that America had never asked Britain to guarantee money lent to the other Allies, and he repudiated Lord Balfour's contention (note to the Allied Powers on War Debts, Aug. 1, 1922) that the United States Government had so insisted " in substance, if not in form." Not content with having made a useless diplomatic blunder, Mr. Harvey was willing to prove it; for he implied that the British Government would withdraw the "unfortunate allusions" made by Lord Balfour six months...