Word: europeanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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California no longer needs to look to France or any other European country for "guidance in finance, in governmental affairs, in style, literature or art." In all these matters the West is now self-sufficient...
...Kuhn, Loeb & Co.'s greatest contribution to U. S. finance has been its pioneering in great international loans. It sold U. S. securities to its European customers and European securities to its U. S. customers, when other U. S. investment dealers had no understanding of such commerce. When Japan was fighting Russia in 1905, Jacob Schiff (1847-1920) then senior partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. was in London. The Japanese Government wanted $50,000,000. London bankers said they would risk $25,000,000. Jacob Schiff said that his firm would take the other $25,000,000. Subsequently, Kuhn, Loeb...
...instrument for peace which the mental abberation of a nation passed by in 1919. The time is not perhaps for distant when those "elder statesmen" in the Senate who exulted over the temporary delay to America's entry into the World Court because of the impossibility of acceptance by European powers of a reservation which would give to the United States rights not belonging to members of the League Council in the Court will be forced by the logic of events into understanding that "splendid isolation" is and always has been a myth in American history, that we are bound...
Famed U. S. architects such as the firm of Cram & Ferguson received within the past fortnight contracts for designs for eight chapels at European cemeteries where U. S. soldiers are buried...
...will face a formidable field in the dashes. They will wear the spikes against McAllister, Murchison, often hailed as America's premier speedster, Hussey, the Boston College flash. Scholz, Charles, Russel, and Morrill. Miller and Burns faced the starter last year with an equally strong list of American and European contenders. In the 40-yard event Miller crossed the line second to Murchison with Houben, the German star, and Hussey trailing...