Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...depending upon Germany's ability to pay in ten years' time. On the question of the Ruhr occupation, the French are adamant, but if the Germans give up passive resistance then France will reduce the army in the Ruhr, open all frontiers and give up executive control of the mines. In Britain the French note is under consideration by the Government. It is understood that while every attempt will be made to continue friendly relations with France, the Government is prepared to take separate action with regard to Germany and the reparations question. Such action will probably necessitate...
...work. Could she give up adventure and independence for Roy and a dingy little house in Flatbush? Not on your weekly pay-envelope! So she wished Roy off on her domestic sister Alice and went on her way triumphant, while Roy and Alice (who had never heard of birth-control) at once began raising a family out of all proportion to their means...
...Klan has bought Valparaiso University at Valparaiso, Ind. Valparaiso University will become a national university. It will be run as a non-sectarian institution open to all regardless of race or color. But the Klan will control it, its board of trustees being made up of Knights selected from the various Realms of the United States...
...fell in one year to 1,260. In 1923 the University was still in difficulties and the Klan bought it for $350,000, approximately the amount of its indebtedness. In the meantime Henry Kinsey Brown, son of the founder, himself a former President, has commenced an action to regain control of 15 buildings valued at $1,000,000. Mr. Brown is proceeding under an alleged flaw in the will of his father, who left all his property to the school...
Descamps, one of France's most brilliant airmen, owes his life to a tree and his own presence of mind. Gliding near Paris, he lost control and plunged into a ravine headon. Then it was that he managed to lodge his craft squarely in the branches of a huge...