Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proceedings of the Preparatory Disarmament Commission* at Geneva (TIME, May 24) got under way last week with the election to its presidency of Jonkheer J. Loudon, onetime Foreign Minister of the Netherlands. Interest at once centered upon the pronouncements of Hugh Simpson Gibson, representing the U. S., and Count von Bernstorff, head of the German delegation?the former grave and earnest, the latter in festive mood...
None the less, the many obvious grounds of dissent at Geneva last week among Germany's onetime enemies, gave Count von Bernstorff an opportunity for polite but insidious irony which he was unable to resist. The Count, whose vivid charm of manner won him much social popularity in Washington before his "undiplomatic"** intrigues as pre-War German Ambassador were discovered, arose at Geneva last week and spoke with a malicious twinkle in his eye: "The delegates should apply to their nations the same rules which they applied in disarming Germany. . . . Talk of 'regional security' would seem slightly out of place...
...expression in the national census. Bigness, as such, furnishes a goal to strive for, a competition open to the spawning aggregations of humanity called cities. That any particular merit attaches to sheer size has not been proven; nevertheless a community feels peculiar pride that its census takers had to count high...
...anxious to become a dictator. He recognized M. Rotaj, President of the Diet, as President of the Republic - which he constitutionally became upon the resignation of President Wojciechowski. M. Rataj then called in Casimir Bartal (Laborite) as Premier, and he promptly installed Pilsudski as Minister of War. Former Premier Count Skrzynski was made Minister of Foreign Affairs. The rest of the Cabinet were not announced. Said the Marshal to a U. S. reporter: "It all happened like lightning...
Married. Mile. Cecile Sorel, glory of the Comedie Francaise, to Count Guillaume de Segier, sportsman ; near Marseilles...