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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Article 36 was written.by Elihu Root in 1920. It has already been accepted by 47 of the 52 World Court nations. Japan is willing to accept it when all the other nations do. Until last week Great Britain and Italy were the only two large powers remaining aloof...
...parallel would be if elegant Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair should suddenly appear as a vegetable-eating, hairy-chested Nudist. An acknowledged leader of Parisian society, always (heretofore) impeccably dressed, great-grandson of Chevalier de Groiseillez? who was a noble governor of Flanders, Andre de Fouquieres shares with silk- stocked Berry Wall and wasp-waisted Marquis Boni de Castellane the title of Last of the Dandies...
...every foot of the peninsula of Ontario and the settled portions of Quebec. . . . "Andrew Mellen [sic], Treasurere of the United States [sic], ... is manufacturing and has in storage terrific supplies of poison and irritating gases for military purposes. . . . "Naval armament for the immediate conversions of steel freighters in the Great Lakes into ships of war is in storage in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago and Duluth. . . . Inordinate supplies of uniforms . . . are in storage in the military posts of the United States Army...
Able Newsman Walter Duranty, long-time correspondent in Russia for the New York Times, who early this month traveled down the broad Volga, left the river often to visit the interior of the great grain provinces of Samara, Kazan and Saratov. He noted no undue disturbances or signs of starvation and reported last week: "The harvest, instead of fair to medium, may be distinctly above the average if the weather remains favorable. The advocates of rationing claim that . . . it plays a useful role in the socialization policy which the Kremlin is now pushing so actively...
...very prosperous. But the mining investments promised more fortune. The sons sold the lace & embroidery business and went to Colorado. They finally consolidated a great lead and silver industry. The sons are noted in U. S. business for working as a unit. Daniel's ability was rated akin to genius. After his father, he was the leader of the Guggenheims...