Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is small doubt that the time element worked in Count Volpi's favor, but there must have been other factors as well which enabled the Italian negotiator to convince Secretaries Mellon, Kellogg and Hoover and Senator Smoot as well that Italy deserved the terms she got-the most lenient which the U. S. has granted to any debtor nation, not excepting Belgium...
...week the Shah seemed indifferent toward events in Persia. It was only after Prince Samad Khan Momtaz, the Persian Minister to France, had anxiously sought him at the Hotel Majestic, that he took what is for him an unprecedentedly firm stand. His "protest" is not expected to count for much against the "bayonets" of Reza Khan. The British Government has already given "provisional recognition" to the new "provisional government" of Persia. The Russian Government, which has been freely rumored to be behind Reza Khan, recognized the new regime by telegraph almost before it was announced...
Athens is the scene of an archeological project that will rival the late Lord Carnarvon's work in Egypt and that of the Count de Prorak at Carthage. The Greek Government (doubtless beholding the influx of tourist money to Egypt) offered to buy and raze some 20 blocks in the business section of Athens and give the right of excavation to the American School of Classical Studies* (backed by 40 U. S. institutions). Twenty to 30 feet beneath the tract lies the Athenian market-place as it was known by Themistocles, Plato, Demosthenes, et al., in whose...
...Manhattan, one Hunter Wykes wrote a letter to The Sun, saying: "I wore a black derby to the Bankers' Club for luncheon, and while I did not count the hats in the hat room, I suppose there must have been a thousand. . . .Among the lot but four black derbys stood out in contrast. The white Fedora was preponderantly in evidence, the rest being soft brown...
This year, for the first time, reports of tutors will also count in securing the final scholastic average of the candidate...