Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government position was rehashed at length but without significant additions to all that has been said during the past eight weeks (TIME, Oct. 5 et seq.). Dr. Luther declared, for the 100th if not the 1,000th time, that the Allies have agreed and given evidence of their intention to ease up on the Rhineland, that Germany must sign the Treaties and enter the League of Nations in order to thrive in peace, and that in so doing she would not be pitting herself against Russia on the side of the Allies or giving up the possibility of obtaining future...
...port of the Chilean-governed province of Tacna-Arica, to supervise a plebiscite ordered by President Coolidge, as arbitrator, to decide the future sovereignty of the provinces of Tacna and Arica, wrested by Chile from Peru when those nations were embroiled in the early '80's (TIME, Aug. 3, et ante...
...Peking no one molested the delegates of the Powers, who are trying to come to an agreement with "the Government of China" concerning the Chinese customs dues (TIME, Nov. 2 et seq.). The U. S. Minister to China and delegate to the Customs Conference, John Van Antwerp MacMurray, reported that the various conference committees were functioning smoothly, but declined to hazard a guess as to the ultimate significance of military developments of the past week...
When Sculptor Gutzon Borglum quarreled with the committee in charge of the Memorial which is being cut into the front of Stone Mountain, Ga. (TIME, Mar. 2 et seq.) and Augustus Lukeman was appointed in his place, many people thought that the long squabble had been buried at last with the Confederate dead which the Memorial is to commemorate. True, there were those who suggested that Sculptor Lukeman was better fitted to carve epitaphs on tombs and chisel dates on cornerstones than to model soldiers, but such people were laughed down...
...Vice President of the famed department store, Saks & Co.; at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Manhattan, of septic poisoning. In leading Manhattan dailies he was publicly mourned in paid advertisements by rival merchants- Abraham & Straus, Stern Bros., Lord & Taylor, James McCreery & Co., Franklin Simon & Co., Gim- bel Bros., Oppenheim-Collins, et...