Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abruptly broken off and the committee prepared to disband (TIME, April 29), after a demand upon Germany for 28 billion dollars over 58 years was met by Dr. Schacht with an absolute refusal to pay more than 15 billions over 37 years. The Allies were particularly incensed by the fact that Germany's "Iron Man" made a portion of his offer conditional upon the return to the Fatherland of certain territory and colonies which she gave up by ratifying the Treaty of Versailles. Blamed by all the Allied delegates for dynamiting the committee, stubborn Dr. Schacht left Paris...
...Hoover plan had been rejected. Apparently this "news" was taken very ill at the White House. Next day the State Department pointed out that the Litvinov motion had not been voted down but merely tabled on a point of order. The distinction is doubtless important, but the fact remains that no delegate except Red Russia's Litvinov proposed anything remotely approaching an endorsement of the cardinal Hoover point...
Stressing "quality" as the distinctive attribute of British goods, and also the extraordinary diffuseness of the Empire's markets, the onetime Lord Mayor concluded: "We are frequently exhorted to copy American selling practices quite regardless of the fact that high pressure sales campaigns coupled with mass advertising in a closed market are not readily adaptable to the needs of a small island whose traditional outlet for its surplus products has been found in catering to the highly diversified and specialized requirements of markets in every corner of the globe. The central quest to which British energies should be directed...
...discovery was not made by the ornate Corporal of the Guard, theoretically responsible for all sentries, but by a passing policeman, amazed to find one of the palace sentry boxes empty. The police-man reported this unusual fact to the Officer of the Guard...
...military correspondents" of London papers wrote that this was the first time in British history that a sentry had disappeared from a British Royal sentry post. They took comfort in the fact that the King was not in residence at Buckingham Palace when the vanishment occurred. "The matter is being treated," said the pontifical Times, "with some levity in the barracks of the Welsh and Coldstream Guards...