Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courses are open, commercial rehabilitation with the relinquishment of custom barriers and trade competition, and more remotely and disastrously, war. And it is not least in the realization that the second possibility is often a reality when the economic balance is destroyed, that the Pan-American Union is felt necessary...
...convention will probably last two nights. Tonight the chief features of the program will be the keynote and nomination speeches, the adoption of a platform, and the first ballots for a Presidential candidate. Strong opposition to the nomination of Governor Smith has made itself felt in the Harvard Democratic ranks, and an intense and prolonged contest may result. A hot struggle is likely tonight over the prohibition plank in the platform...
Reception. To welcome and impress the Afghan Potentate, when his train chuffed into Moscow last week, there stepped forward a scrubby-bearded one-time peasant, clad in a plain dark overcoat topped by a soft felt hat. This was Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, beloved President of the Soviet Union.* The effect of his sombre simple garb upon King Amanullah, who for four months has been feted by Presidents in sleek tail coats and Monarchs attired as field marshals, must indeed have been impressive. Darting a quick glance about the station, His Majesty saw not a single silk hat or full dress...
Commercial Opportunities. Keenest disappointment is felt by business firms in European capitals visited by King Amanullah that he let practically no important contracts, and made few large purchases, except to buy some furniture for his new palace, several airplanes, and a brace of automobiles. It is not true, as has been widely stated, that Their Majesties in purchasing clothes and personal effects, carried the goods away on credit and have not yet paid. It is true that they received numerous valuable presents from firms which hoped for further orders. Thus the German Lufthansa company presented to His Majesty a seven...
...wrote in an open letter to Cardinal Pompili, vicar of the Rome diocese, apropos of a "gymnastic" competition which was held in that city last week. The Pontiff proceeded to explain that he was not, in principle, opposed to athletics but that when competitions became too exhibitionistic, he felt compelled to frown. Governmental circles in Rome regarded the Pope's letter as another manifestation of the Vatican's opposition to what the Pope calls "Fascist monopolization of the education of youth." At the end of his document the Pontiff gave a hint as to how his own theories...