Word: despatche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council of the League attends to its business,--and vitally important business most of it is,--with remarkable despatch and precision. The representatives of the eleven member-nations which compose it include such impressive figures as Lord Balfour, ex-Premier Leon Bourgeois of France, Premier Branding of Sweden, and M. Paul Hymans, former Foreign Minister of Belgium. The Assembly, and the six Commissions into which it divided itself for the efficient conduct of its business, went through the enormous and varied list of topics on its 1922 agenda,--coming to a positive constructive decision in the great majority of cases...
...runs the cut and dried despatch announcing one more conquest of nature, opening up a new era for trans-Saharan travel and trade, and connecting the French of the Mediterranean with the colonies of the West Coast...
...meantime the inter-allied financial conference, scheduled in Brussels for the first week of December, approaches. "The Reparations Commission", reads a despatch to the Boston Transcript, "is so thoroughly at its wits' ends over what to do with Germany that the Entente is likely to make a reduction, in addition to a moratorium". But at the same time it is declared that Poincare will never consent to a reduction of German reparations without a corresponding reduction in inter-allied debts...
...Department of Labor has made a wise move, if, as a recent Washington despatch announced, it has issued an order exempting from the provisions of the three per cent immigration law, students from foreign countries coming to the United States to study in American schools, colleges and universities. Under the present immigration law, the annual quota of each foreign country must not exceed 3 per cent of the total number of its nationals which the last census gives as residents of the United States. In the long run, the enforcement of this rule is bound to keep...
...very ably representative qualities he brings to his new position. There is always a demand, as there is a need, that the fellows of the University should not be wholly drawn from among men resident here in Boston, however much it might contribute to the prompt and easy despatch of Harvard's business to have them so chosen. Since the death of Mr. Robert Bacon, this need of outside representation had gone unfulfilled. Mr. Byrne's appointment supplies it. A New York lawyer of the first rank, a man who has manifested his interest in education and the things...