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...will see that." And the London Times might grumble: "Reduced to simple mathematical terms, the agreement represents the cancellation of approximately six-sevenths of the Italian war debt to this country." But basically these two newspapers and a majority of the international press concurred in declaring the Volpi-Churchill dicker sound...
...Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Chancellor of the British Exchequer. A sleek, bearded Latin and an expansive, rubicund Briton. The most powerful self-made Italian industrialist, and the most genial onetime First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty. Such were the two completely antithetical statesmen who sat down to dicker over a settlement of the Anglo-Italian debt, in London, last week. What they said to each other naturally remained a diplomatic secret. But the two sets of public opinion between which they were expected to compromise have been made clear by the Italian and British press for some months past...
First Standish-Stroke, Parker; 7, Dicker; 6, Balch; 5, Jenney; 4, Gundrie; 3, Knaugh; 2, Wright; bow, Longear; cox., Place...
...short and very slight stories, entitled "Letter Writing" and "The Force of Circumstances," written by A. W. Weysse and C. T. Page, respectively, together with the anonymous account of "A Lamp Dicker," make up the prose of the number. The story of the "Lamp Dicker" shows keen appreciation of a character common enough in college and out of it, and contains several very felicitous phrases...
...pull with schools of technology, the latter institutes have the prior claim by age and standing; if with industrial schools, why, the Baldwin locomotive works of Philadelphia could turn out, with practice, a very attractive and formidable crew of apprentices. .... And yet Harvard will stand and dicker with institutions having no claims whatever to collegiate prestige. .... If Harvard makes a big strike to get other colleges on the Thames in the university season, I hope the Yale crew will not pat in an appearance. Harvard can't stand it more than one year...