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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...volume of German payments-the idea being to place "on a business basis" the present semipolitical functions of the Reparations Commission, which is to be absorbed by the B. I. S. This idea, by the way, appeared more and more clearly, last week, as the brain-child of Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Committee, co-representative of the U. S. with J. Pierpont Morgan. During the week Mr. Young was palpably embarrassed when Frenchmen began calling his Bank of International Settlement, the "Bank of Nations," thus linking it by verbal implication with the League of Nations. In the authoritative...
...when this entente is realized will be a day of world confidence and world credit. And from that day when the Bank of Nations is realized, there will be real association des nations." (In French the League is called Societe des Nations often abbreviated "S. D...
...catastrophic finish, Moby Dick provides palpitating cinema material, to say nothing of a complete scientific compendium of whaledom. But far more than these it offers so excellent a parable on the mystery of evil that every man can read into it the drama of his own experience. "Mr. D. H. Lawrence sees in the conflict a battle between the blood-consciousness of the white race and its own abstract intellect, which attempts to hunt and slay it: Mr. Percy Boynton sees in the whale all property and vested privilege, laming the spirit of man: Mr. Van Wyck Brooks has found...
ROME HAUL-Walter D. Edmonds-Little, Brown...
Washington (D. C.) Star...