Word: happening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though His Excellency Tcheng Loh took no further action, last week, other statesmen were busy with speculation as to what will happen when the League Council meets. Of the Great Powers only France is really anxious to force a show down with Hungary in the interest of her small national allies, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania. Italy must presumably oppose any action, lest she herself be proved to have shipped arms to Hungary in violation of the Treaty of Trianon. Germany is expected to take the same stand, though for the different reason that she fears the establishment of a precedent...
Coach Cowles went on to say that it was too early yet to make any predictions as to the outcome of the Davis Cup contest, and that anything might happen between now and midsummer to change the complexion of the whole affair. He mentioned the fact that Cochet, second ranking French player, played a far better game on foreign courts than on those in his own country, and that George Lott is a much better player on hard courts, being in his opinion the premier hard court player in this country. As the final of the Davis Cup contest will...
...does not often happen, the meaning of both august orators appeared most clearly and concisely from their actual words. So vociferously was each statesman cheered by his own parliamentary audience, without regard to party, that it could be truly said: "The people of Germany are debating with the people of France." Excerpts: Stresemann: "Before all else we Germans demand the evacuation of the Rhineland. . . . The Locarno agreement assures peace between Germany and France. Both nations obligate themselves through this agreement to forego all aggressive action against each other. Whosoever asks for more security than that doubts the pledged word...
...rates from 3½% to 4%. The Chicago and Richmond banks had done the same the previous week. One effect of the rate changes forecast by financial commentators was that stock market quotations would fall sharply because market operators would find money too expensive to borrow. That did not happen appreciably last week. Another prognostication was that banks would make greater efforts than in the past few months to loan money to commercial and industrial organizations. Nor did that develop noticeably last week...
...have been making pointed pictorial insinuations about the inexplicably large navy which their star-spangled Shylock is providing. In the light of this fear, it was unfortunate, perhaps typically so, that Secretary Kellogg, on the day before the signing, should propose another treaty, this time to abolish submarines, which happen to be the basis of the French navy...