Word: gist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MacDonald hinted that he might advise the King to call a Conservative to take the reins of government, or, he might advise him to dissolve Parliament. The prospective Premier then went on to give his views on parliamentarianism. The gist of his remarks was that the days of majority governments are over. This situation, he claimed, will promote individualism by slackening the bonds of party politics...
...Council of the League of Nations, sitting in Paris, approved two protocols providing for financial reconstruction of Hungary on a plan similar to that adopted early this year in the case of Austria. The gist of the scheme is that Hungary is to turn over the revenue from customs and State monopolies to the League, in return for which the League will float a loan of 250,000,000 gold corona and establish budgetary equilibrium by June 30, 1926. The scheme is to go to Budapest for ratification and is to be discussed by a sub-committee of the League...
...more than any other class of people does not want war. The only excuse for the army's existence is to do away with weakness which would invite imposition. When its power is reduced to the danger point, as it is now, it should be strengthened. That is the gist of the President's view. In my opinion, he has shown sound, sane judgment...
...Nutt and Peaceful Henry came east to his last year's contest. Groups of the most famous riders of the Western rodeos came with them to ride or fall for the prize money. This year the purses aggregate $50,000; the riders will include: Mike Hastings, Pinky Gist, Yakima Canutt (half-breed; world's champion in 1921), Howard Tegland, Roy Quick, Paddy Ryan, Soapy Williams, Ike Rude, Powder River Thompson, Hugh Strickland, Mabel Strickland (world's woman champion in 1922), Bonnie McCarroll, Rene Halfley, Bonnie Gray. They pay their own way and come under the following instructions...
...French press took occasion to retell the story of how the world's most noted pianist was expelled from Russia after playing for Tzar Alexander III. The gist of this tale...