Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Columbia roses, sprays of aboli and maidenhair fern decorated the table in the great dining room of the White House when President Coolidge with 44 guests sat down to meat. The gathering included the French delegation to the Debt Conference (see CABINET), the entire Cabinet (except Messrs. Work and Weeks) ; Senators Smoot, Borah, Swanson; Ambassadors Herrick and Daeschner...
...French Attitude. There was high hope in the French Mission as it came to negotiate for settlement of the French War Debt to the U. S.?high hope of a low settlement. The Mission of course said little except "Hope." But it was accompanied by two journalists ? Stephane Lauzanne, Editor of Le Matin, and Pertinax, Foreign Editor of L'Echo de Paris... Those two gentlemen were voluble in their protestations. They exhibited an entire unwillingness to believe that the U. S. demand for payment in full on something like the terms to Great Britain was serious. Mr. Lauzanne...
...officers called on the first day favored continuation of substantially the present organization, except General Patrick, who favored the Marine Corps plan for the present with later an independent Air Service. After each of the witnesses had made his statement a few questions were asked...
...grinding season" in Cuba, when the cane is crushed and the liquors extracted, is now at about its end, and estimates of production can be made. Apparently more cane was handled than ever before, and plantings of the new crop promise to exceed even those of this year. Except for the U. S. beet sugar industry, the same general situation of excessive production exists throughout the sugar world. As a result, sugar prices, though temporarily held up by the canning and preserving season this summer, threaten to continue in the doldrums for some time...
...members of the class will be informed by mail the time they are to present themselves for examination. The Department of Hygienic in charge of the examinations announced that this engagement takes precedence over all classes except regular laboratory periods and may not be cut. If is hoped that it will be possible to complete the examinations this year in the shortest time possible. No latency will be exercised in the matter of cuts...