Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a family table stands perpetually in the white marble Pan-American Building, at Washington; and there, last week, mother and father dished up a piping dinner for all 20 republics. Of course the "family party" was really the Pan-American Conference on Arbitration and Conciliation (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.). At mother's end of the table sat Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, a kindly gentleman on the eve of retirement. Down at father's end of that table sat, of course, bewhiskered Charles Evans Hughes, undisputed "Daddy of them...
...holidays, that he plans to resign as soon as he is satisfied that his Cabinet?in which he now holds no active portfolio?can carry on under another leader. After two and a half years of incessant and supremely successful work in stabilizing the franc (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926 et seq.), the Prime Minister and former President of France is anxious for release from arduous and poorly paying public duties...
...Machensen, which had been published several times before without denial, it rings true, and when I consider the veracity of TIME, and compare it with that of members of the German High Command, I prefer to believe TIME. We have not yet forgotten how Feld Marshal von Machensen, et al, broke their pledged word, as evinced by solemn treaty, and invaded Belgium without any right except that of might. If their word was of no value in 1914 what reason have we to believe that the leopard has changed his spots? The same stricture applies to the occupant of Doom...
TIME thanks Subscriber Hoskins for his clarifying statement. West Virginians, proud of their State, once before rallied to its defense when an Ohioan had the temerity to say that West Virginia was "Ohio's coal bin" (TIME, Feb. 28, 1927 et...
Ticker. Of the $29,000,000, about one-seventh will go to provide bankers, brokers, speculators, with the fastest stockmarket service in the world. Woefully laggard were the ticker reports of the late great "Hoover Market" (TIME, Nov. 29, et seq.). New tickers, now being installed, will print 500, instead of 300, characters per minute...