Word: gordian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mail planes loop around the Gulf of Mexico and, since last week, shoot down to Chile. Soon he expects them to fly from Panama to Trinidad Island, then to Porto Rico. Then he will have a Gordian knot around the Caribbean Sea which any competitor will have great difficulty to hack apart...
...Gordian Knot was cut when M. Briand summoned to his Paris office Norman Armour, Charge d'Affaires of the local U. S. embassy, and asked him to transmit a note from the League, not to Secretary of State Kellogg, but to Chairman Kellogg of the Pan-American Conference...
...February, the necessity of immediate and courageous action on the part of the athletic authorities cannot be denied. The announcement that, funds or no funds for the fourth, construction on the first three floors or the new gymnasium will begin next week, marks a direct effort to sever the Gordian knot. New precedent or not, Mr. Bingham has proved that he is quite capable of dealing with the numerous annoying hindrances in the path of carrying out his athletics-for-all policy to its logical conclusion...
...RECKONING-Stephen McKenna -Little, Brown ($2.50). This is the last volume in the series of three called The Realists. The central figures in the series are again three: Ambrose Sheridan, titan and punching politician, who marries Auriol Otway who loves Max Hendry. In Due Reckoning, the Gordian knot of this situation is not sliced but neatly untied by Author McKenna. That he had the untying in mind when he first pulled the strings tight is sufficiently obvious; and Auriol's prayers for the one chance in a hundred that will release her from a marriage that was never more...
When in 1924 France grew exasperated at the Gordian knot into which Germany was lying the matter of reparations, she solved the situation in traditional military fashion by ordering her troops to occupy the Ruhr. Other nations, less precipitate in action, shared her anger over the matter of post war settlements. The situation was rapidly becoming a crisis when Charles G. Dawes, Owen Young, and their associates were appointed by the Reparations Commission to draw up what has since been called the Dawes Plan for Reparations Payment. The Dawes plan is responsible for the present stabilization of German currency...