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...Within the next fortnight Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson will, according to a State Department hint, expound in a public speech this treaty, which the U. S. never signed...
...teaches its warriors the virtue of utility, simple methods. Modern architects expound the same virtues. Perhaps the fact that many of them fought in the World War is significant. In November 1918, John Wellborn Root, Captain with the U. S. Engineer Corps in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives, was wounded near Nancy. John Augur Holabird, later to become his architectural partner, was a West Pointer, served as Major and later as Lieutenant Colonel of Field Artillery...
...continuing to expound the benefits of her art, the palmist explained that if one's hands are in a deplorable condition, foretelling only the darkest of future events, there is easy access to the medium of Astrology which might very likely afford a more favorable report. As a last resort this clever person can with equal skill turn to card reading...
Scope. To expound her system, Dottoressa Montessori has held 14 international training courses. The fifteenth, which begins this week in Rome, will last until the end of June. Thrice a week she will lecture to elementary teachers, students of pedagogy, parents who have "problem children." Under her direction there will be held some 70 practical demonstrations of her "didactic" contraptions...
Ambassador Gibson arrived in Geneva last spring, heard Comrade Litvinov expound to the great powers his cherished scheme of disarmament on which he had labored many a year. It so happened that the Hoover plan-which Mr. Gibson had in his pocket-paralleled almost exactly in its two most important aspects the Litvinov scheme,* though no one present knew that then except Mr. Gibson. Plan in pocket, he let Litvinov talk, declined to comment in open meeting, told correspondents privately that the Soviet scheme was not worthy of comment or consideration, suggested that Comrade Litvinov had presented...