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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wanted 15 years in which to suppress opium smoking, but he did not want that period to begin "until a date on which the effective execution of measures taken 'by China to suppress the growth of the opium poppy has reached such a stage as to remove the danger of opium smuggling from China into those territories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Poppy Talk | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...further suggested that a commission appointed by the League should decide when the danger of opium smuggling in China is passed; for, in his lordships opinion, it was useless to deal in half measures-all production in the drug was to cease immediately. It would then be possible for a 15-year period of gradual suppression of opium production to begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Poppy Talk | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

...Greenman 1G.B. and M. T. Greenman '26 discovered the blaze, which apparently started in the basement, while they were "cramming for a mid-year They raced through the house shouting fire," awaking eight other students who were sleeping and entirely oblivious of the danger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLY MORNING BLAZE ROUTS TEN SLEEPERS AT S. A. E. | 1/30/1925 | See Source »

...Harvard has passed the danger-point. The possibility that emphasis upon technical training might, as in some institutions, shift the balance of interest and support away from the humanities, is destroyed. The requirement of an academic degree for admission to the business school has removed from the undergraduate the temptation to sacrifice liberal arts to business; and the physical separation of the two departments will soon be carried out to the relief of both. Meanwhile, Harvard receives Mr. Ayres' commendation humbly, with one eye on the pitfalls recently negotiated, and one eye on the dubious quagmires of future policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAMMON DEFENDED | 1/27/1925 | See Source »

...itself difficult to grasp, is inextricably dove-tailed with questions of German reparations. French public finance, allied debts to England, and American monopoly of the world's gold, and it is complicated by contrary theories of international trade. Threatening factions between the former allies cannot be overlooked. The danger of over-whelming the French government with bankruptcy is very real, for present loans are being subscribed on the assumption that the United States will not insist upon the collection of its war loans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POUND OF FLESH | 1/24/1925 | See Source »

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