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Word: ets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...build or not to build was not the question. When to build quite overshadowed all. President Coolidge had been willing to admit that perhaps the Navy does need 15 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier (TIME, Feb. 11 et ante). But they need not all be begun within three years, was his point. It would be so expensive ($274,000,000). It would seem so warlike. It might inconvenience the Budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 15 Cruisers, Now | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Time: An afternoon of last week when the delegates of the Great Powers were arriving at their hotels, preparatory to assembling next day as the second Dawes Committee (TIME, Jan. 14 et seq.), which will revise the Dawes Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Grand Spectacle | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Fifteen rounds having been fought (TIME, Jan. 28 et seq.); the fight to a finish between John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and Col. Robert Wright Stewart, minority stockholder and board-chairman, respectively, of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, continued last week as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rockefeller v. Stewart | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...share of attention at 4.30 o'clock when Professor Conant speaks on "Recent Excavations and Research at the Monastery of Cluny" in the large lecture room of Fogg Museum. Finally, at 8 o'clock tonight, Professor Albert Brachet will discuss "La Situation Actuelle de l'Europe et le Progress Scientifique". This will take place in Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/14/1929 | See Source »

Hundreds of cases, involving tens of millions of dollars, came into his charge. When Motorman Ford launched his attacks on the Jews (TIME, May 2, 1927 et ante), Lawyer Longley found himself pitted against such famed Manhattan legalites as Samuel Untermyer and Louis Marshall in the most celebrated libel suits since Boss William Barnes charged the late great Theodore Roosevelt with tippling. Together with Missouri's Senator Reed and Lawyer De Lancey Nicoll of Manhattan, Lawyer Longley battled the charges of Aaron Sapiro and Herman Bernstein. In the end, Mr. Ford retracted and the cases were settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Ford's Lawyer | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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