Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must sometimes subordinate itself to Politics. Seven weeks ago John Pierpont Morgan and other international big tycoons finished drafting at Paris the so-called Young Plan, embodying their potent recommendations as to how German Reparations may best be paid through an International Bank of Settle-ment (TIME, March 25, et seq.). Politicians representing Germany and the Creditor Powers must now accept or reject the tycoons' advice. Last week, after a month of spirited bickering among European chancellories, it was decided to hold a "Political Reparations Conference" in mid-August at The Hague. The immaculate, aristocratic capital of Queen Wilhelmina...
...suggestion that Great Man Raymond Poincaré has not made great mistakes, but his constructive achievements have been so great that history will excuse even his colossal blunder of trying to squeeze reparations out of Germany by sending French troops to occupy the Ruhr (TIME, March 17, 1923, et...
...eight weeks Actors' Equity Association (actors' union) has attempted to impose its closed shop on Hollywood cinemactors (TIME, July 8 et...
...last week met gusty resistance. When the Presbyterian General Assembly recently vested control of Princeton Theological Seminary in a single body (instead of dual control by trustees and directors) it virtually assured the ascendance of Modernism in the oldest, richest Presbyterian seminary in the U. S. (TIME, June 3 et seq.'). Greatly distressed were potent Fundamentalists, who have long fought to keep Princeton one of the few remaining strongholds of ancient evangelical doctrine. Last week the Princeton Fundamentalists met in Philadelphia, made plans to secede from Princeton, to found a new seminary to teach the ideals which Princeton would...
Just as other power men have become newspaper owners to ensure a market for their papermaking subsidiaries (TIME, April 22 et seq.}, so the Insull interests were entering actually into the textile trade to ensure "large numbers of new power customers." Brother Martin Insull said: "The primary object is to serve the textile industry in New England, better business there and increase employment...