Word: corridors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first will consider the prospects for world disarmament, under the leadership of the delegation from Smith College, which represents Canada. The second is scheduled to debate the question of revision of the Treaty of Versailles, with special regard to the situation now confronting Germany and Poland in the Polish Corridor. The Chairmanship of this body falls to Yale, representing Germany. The third committee will enter the vast field of economic questions, placing special stress upon the international gold situation, the possibilities of bimelallism, and the potentialities inherent in the reparations question. Amherst, acting as Great Britain, will conduct this discussion...
...experimenting; in the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory of the Boston City Hospital. He was studying the relation to cancer of certain fats called lipoids. In transferring a cyanide solution, some, it is presumed, dropped on his hand, was later wiped off on his mouth. He was found unconscious in a corridor, died an hour later. Died. Giles Lytton Strachey, 51, biographer (Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth and Essex, Portraits in Miniature); of ulcerative colitis; in Inkpen, Berkshire, England. Born to a world of letters, he dallied with, poetry at Trinity College, Cambridge, then sharpened his phrases for several years on French...
...held a field day for Texans. Congressman Patman prosecuted Mr. Mellon; Alexander White Gregg, Texas-born son of a deceased Texas Congressman, defended Mr. Mellon. Congressman Hatton Sumners of Dallas, Judiciary chairman, presided as judge. Notably absent was Mr. Mellon who at that precise moment was appearing down the corridor before the Ways & Means Committee with his plan for tax-upping...
...break herself of the habit of taking off her clothes at crucial moments and was therefore naked when she faced a French firing squad. This episode is omitted from the Greta Garbo version of the affair, which ends as Miss Garbo, majestic in black, is walking down a long corridor between two lines of soldiers. Her lover (Ramon Novarro) is a blind aviator who has said good-by to her under the impression that her prison is a hospital and that she is leaving him to undergo a minor operation. To reveal its tragic conclusion in no way impairs...
...special problems before the League. The first one will consider disarmament and the Manchurian question, the second will consider the pros and cons of the gold standard and bimetallism, while another group will present the subject of revision of the Treaty of Versailles, with special regard to the Polish Corridor. The general economic situation of the world at present will receive considerable attention. Each committee is composed of 55 members, one representing each college. Other topics will be taken up by the Council of the League...