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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury, said, according to the published, uncontradicted version of his letter: "All our principal debtors are already receiving from Germany more than enough to pay their debts to the United States. . . ." Last week Mr. Mellon said he had written: "All our principal debtors except Great Britain are already, etc." The words "except Great Britain" had somehow been "inadvertently omitted...
...Some common basis of interest"--varieties of which the Report cites as musical, journalistic, dramatic, is an excellent manner in which to introduce men to each other, but it does not constitute the basis of a lasting friendship. Cliques are as common in, organizations devoted to music, dramatics etc, as in any gathering of men--not excepting the present clubs themselves...
...while U. S. Chief Executive. The cross was sent to the Department of State, to be kept in trust until President Coolidge becomes eligible to wear it. ¶Two months ago (TIME, March 21), Wilson Jackson, Negro porter and keeper of the presidential collection of raccoon, collies, bees, owl, etc., rolled his large eyes, blew on his large hands when told that two lion cubs were coming to the White House, gifts of the Mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa, brought by one C. B. Deitz, Omaha coalman. Last week the cubs (Joe & Hannah) arrived, aged ten months; size, larger than...
...help, except in cases of extreme distress, when "S O S"š will be used. 2) The word "aerodina" will be submitted to all governments with the recommendation that it replace the present usage (i. e.: "aeroplane" in English, aeronaut in French, luft-schiff in German, arioplano in Italian, etc.). 3) Aerodinas must hereafter keep to the left when following railway tracks, roads, rivers, etc.; and when crossing any of these land highways shall cross over at right angles to the land highway. 4) Aerodinas belonging to the League of Nations will be designated on their wings by the letters...
George A. Doran & Co., Manhattan book publishers, lately announced that Dikran Kuyumjian, Anglo-Armenian novelist by pen-name Michael Arlen (Piracy, The Green Hat, etc.), would arrive in the U. S. coincident with the publication of his new novel, Young Men in Love (TIME, May 2). Either ignorant of Mr. Kuyumjian's movements, or reluctant to spoil the effect of sound publicity, Doran & Co. did not tell the press until last week that Mr. Kuyumjian had sailed, not for the U. S. but to Peru...