Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spent six weeks at Geneva during the arms conference. As an international lobbyist, he sowed seeds of statistical discord, sought to preserve the irreconcilability of the British and U. S. viewpoints on cruiser tonnage. When the conference failed, he considered his mission a complete success, took the "credit...
...much credit should not be given to Her Majesty, but fact was that not many hours after the royal banquet Mr. Snowden, for the first time since the Conference opened, lunched informally with his chief foe, French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, and with Dr. Stresemann. As every U. S. businessman knows, the bigger the deal, the more vital is lunch...
...President Chiang Kai-shek ordered a $1,000,000 "credit for war supplies" placed at the disposal of his field commander in Manchuria, Marshal Chang Hsueh-lian...
...trade, stuffs birds down his shirt front in a highly invisible manner while acting as master of the rakish ceremonies. Noel Coward, Peter Arno, John McGowan and most admirably Rube Goldberg are implicated in suitable capacities, as is the author of a song called, "I May be Wrong." Credit for the rest of the Almanac's sophisticated virtues should be laid to John Murray Anderson, its organizer and producer, and to Gil Boag, its $180,000 angel, hitherto famed variously and not least for being a onetime husband of Gilda Gray...
...elected President of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. Mother of four, brown, firm, skillful, she it was who coached Helen Wills to win the singles title from Molla Bjurstedt Mallory in 1923. "Calm, quiet, generous and sporting," as Helen Wills calls her, she it is who deserves credit for the Wills-Wightman doubles championships of 1924 and 1928. Playing together, wise Mrs. Wightman and Big Helen Wills have never been beaten...