Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office. He could, of course, communicate what was on his mind to Nationalist China, but to Soviet Russia he could not speak. The U. S. does not recognize the Soviet's existence. Lawyerlike, Statesman Stimson remembered, got out, and ruffled the unused pages of the so-called Four-Power Treaty which the U. S., Britain, France and Japan drafted in 1921. A phrase in this treaty makes it possible for the Four Powers to discuss "freely and fully" almost any Far Eastern matter. Statesman Stimson sent for his excellency Paul Claudel, Ambassador from the other parent country...
...cost of the four-day battle to the U. S. was $18,000, most of which went to farmers for the use of their fields, barns, outhouses. Some of the husbandmen unintentionally contributed to war-time realism when they tripped over military telegraph wires strung through their hayfields, fetched axes and hacked apart the communication lines of the defending force...
...outside" world, with its 7,285,079 registration, has about as many automobiles as the U. S. had in 1919. There are now almost four times as many motor cars in the U. S. as there were in 1919. It is not likely that Europe will multiply its motor registration by four in the next ten years. Nevertheless, U. S. motormen feel the "outside" world is the next great world to conquer. Just as Mr. Macauley considers that he has well established the Packard in the U. S., he?and General Motors, Ford, Chrysler...
...People say that the bull market of the last four years has caused an over valuation of all stocks. I don't think this is true. It was true in 1922 when industry was overinventoried. But in the closely knit organization of business today stock prices can't far overrun their real demonstrable value...
...oldtime rival as defender of America's cup. Charles Francis Adams Jr., able son of an able father, won. Score of the 100 races: Vanitie, 55; Resolute, 45. Last week's Vanitie-Resolute course: 41 miles from Kittery to Marblehead. Oldster Team. England last week chose four oldsters, one youngster for the null man Cup team which will play in the U. S. at Forest Hills, L. I., next month. The team: Mrs. D. C. Shepherd-Barron, Mrs. P. H. Covefl, Mrs. M. H. Watson, Mrs. L. R. C. (Peggy Saunders) Mitchell, Miss Betty Nuthall. Youngsters passed over...