Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important plank in the British Labor Government's election platform was the resumption of diplomatic relations with Russia. Negotiations toward that end were started between grizzled British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson and unctuous Soviet Ambassador to France Valerian Devgalevsky. Because of Britain's insistence that Russia give definite promise to cease Communist propaganda in the British Empire before ambassadors be appointed. Russian insistence that her national dignity demanded an exchange of ambassadors before discussing definite points of agreement, negotiations were quickly deadlocked (TIME, Aug. 5). Russia's Devgalevsky packed his briefcases, went back to France. Said Plump...
There still remains the official approval of these steps by the British House of Commons against certain Conservative opposition. But Foreign Secretary Henderson & Soviet Ambassador Devgalevsky seemed pleased with their week's work...
...strict holding company with 87% of its investments in utilities, Electric Bond and Share Co. has much wider interests. Besides holding stocks of other companies, Bond and Share renders financial and operative assistance of every type and has supervisory agreements with American Power and Light Co., American and Foreign Power Co., Inc., Electric Power and Light Co., American Gas and Electric Co., National Power and Light Co. and all their subsidiaries. Although from Electric Investors, Inc., Bond and Share will receive additional stock in these companies the only one actually controlled will still be the American and Foreign Power...
After two weeks of conditioning. Head Freshman Coach A. E. French will send his eleven against Andover today in the first game of the season on the foreign gridiron...
...which threatens to wipe out the lawful study of a whole field of literature. In the welter of material which has appeared on the subject vilifying the censors, the one thing that has been overlooked is the possibility of disclosing an insidious publishers lobby. All books printed in a foreign language are admitted duty free into the country and they may sometimes compete with American publications and thus reduce the per'capita spendings of each man woman and child on American printed books. It has been shown lately that American "Big Business" stops at practically nothing, and a Senate, investigation...