Word: height
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...NAME .............................. HEIGHT...
...Kemal was asked what he thought about America. "You ideals," he went on, are the most striking thing about you. They are like your buildings, whose minimum height seems to be ten stories. You are a young country. Europe is a continent of tired people. Its civilization is old, but it is also in a state of total fatigue. We look to America, and so does Europe, for the maintenance and addition to new ideals...
Toward the League. Foreign Minister Stresemann made good use of the kindly feelings engendered in German hearts by the evacuation of Cologne. While the Rhineland celebration was still at its height, Herr Stresemann publicly announced that but for the Locarno Pacts the Allies would have delayed still longer before evacuating Cologne. Ergo, it behooved Germany to hurry up and enter the League of Nations as provided in the Locarno treaties (TIME, Nov. 2). Next day the astute Herr Stresemann convoked the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag, demanded and received its authority to apply unconditionally to the League for Germany...
...learn how extensive Chicago quack operations were, the Tribune editors picked out a husky reporter, one F . . . W . . ., 30 years old, 220 lb in weight, 6 ft. 1 in. in height; had him examined by such highly reputed physicians as Dr. Louis E. Schmidt and Dr. Eugene Laurence Hartigan. They tapped him, sounded him, made Wassermann tests, pronounced him "an exceptionally healthy young man." Not so the charlatans. His reports on their personalities, their diagnoses and their cures he made unabashedly, and the Tribune bravely dealt with seven of them last week...
...McCarthy, stocky, smooth faced, of medium height, heavy, spectacled and prematurely grey, sat looking at the patient, asked a few questions, declared he suffered from "prostatic trouble" curable by "electric treatment" for $100, $20 down. He operates the "House of Health," where in a demurely yet impressively equipped waiting room a buxom, black-eyed, black-haired demoiselle welcomes the "lobs." But they work for H. L. Giles and August E. Kroening, who syndicate their institutions with branches in Manhattan, Jersey City, Newark, N. J., Kansas City, Montreal and Detroit. They have been harried about the U.S. and Canada...