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...Misfortune-to others-has been largely the foundation of the Coolidge career. Each of his greatest advancements came directly from the womb of tragedy...
...made necessary by the termination, next January, of the trade relations between the two countries as expressed in the Treaty of Versailles. Their importance may be considerable. On both sides are men who avowedly sponsor a great steel trust. In France's Lorraine are found Europe's greatest iron deposits; in Germany's Ruhr Valley are the greatest deposits of coal. An agreement to abolish the duties upon iron ore entering Germany and upon coal entering France would have but one effect: France and Germany would be able to undersell their foreign steel competitors...
Chancellor Wilhelm Marx was confronted with the greatest political enigma that has yet crossed the threshold of his career...
...time that the Experts' Plan legislation was passed by the Reichstag (TIME, June 16), support from the moderate Monarchists was obtained by promising them seats in the Cabinet. The greatest supporter of this compromise was Dr. Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister and leader of the Volkspartei (People's Party). He argued that the inclusion of the Monarchists was most desirable from every standpoint: First, the Government should honor its promise; and second, Monarohist Ministers in the Cabinet would be a real step toward linking the past with the present...
...Eaton's day, Rensselaer graduates went pioneering in the field of scientific agriculture. California and Wisconsin were the first two states benefited. Later, Rensselaer men started the departments of Botany, Zoology, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy and Astronomy at such universities as Iowa, Michigan, Harvard, Cornell, Johns Hopkins. Their greatest names, however, are in engineering annals. Rensselaer-trained were...