Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such was the totally misleading theme-sentence of a suave, lengthy reply returned, last week, by British Foreign Minister Sir Austen Chamberlain to the proposal made by U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg (TIME, April 23 et seq.) for a treaty "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy" among the U. S., Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan...
Only last fortnight U. S. Brigadier General Frank R. McCoy said, upon arriving at Washington from Nicaragua: "Sandino is just a little fellow prowling among the caverns of the mountains. ... If it weren't for the newspapers in the U. S. nobody much would know about Sandino. . . . People can't understand why 4,000 marines can't catch him quickly . . . but a fugitive might escape capture for a long time right in New York or Chicago...
Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg went so far as to add that the U. S. does not recognize any claim that Japan possesses special interests in Manchuria...
Buchmanism, in its essentials, is easily seen as an adaptation of Christianity which contains many features of traditional excellence. Conversion, contemplation, confession-upon these it lays emphasis. One peculiarity, however, has made it famous and has caused its founder, Frank N. D. Buchman, Muhlenburg graduate and Lutheran minister, to be called ugly names. At Buchman "houseparties" (gatherings devoted to mutual confession and "washing out"), sex is the pièce de résistance. Mr. Buchman and his assistants are accused of reducing their diagnoses of spiritual sufferings to bad sex habits. The weak-chinned element in schools and colleges...
...means filled with the sons of the humble; the founder of the sect has an attraction if not a predilection for the rich and for crowned heads. His influence upon the members of the Royal House of Rumania has been marked and apparent. Queen Marie, at whose palace Frank Buchman has made long visits, talks with the fetching lack of reserve which characterizes the true Buchmanite, while her second son, weak-chinned Prince Nicholas, one of the regents of Rumania and uncle to small