Word: hints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany into the League. British public opinion promptly crystallized against the admission of any other state than Germany to the League Council at present; and Sir Austen found himself in a completely awkward position. His position became almost untenable, late in the week, when the British press began to hint that Sir Austen had deliberately bargained with M. Briand at Locarno, the price of French support for the Locarno Pacts being (allegedly) British support for Poland's League Council candidacy...
Sirs: TIME has the happy faculty of out-guessing all other publications, so perhaps just a hint of an improvement may be given : There are subscribers such as I who take pleasure in remailing their copies to friends in different parts of the world who might be interested in some feature of a week's issue- Therefore, why not in each issue carry this information: "Domestic postage on this issue of TIME . . . . Foreign postage . . . cents." ORTON E. GOODWIN...
...Calles troops were reported to be executing on the spot everyone whom they caught and believed to be one of the assassins. Eight men who were caught red-handed with loot from the train " confessed" ?to exactly what was not stated? and were instantly shot. The only hint at a definite explanation of the bandits' acts was that they thought General Ferreira, Military Commandant of the state of Jalisco, was on the train and wished to murder...
...President's ultimatum had more than a warlike reputation to support it. Persistent rumors of a dictatorship under Chancellor Luther, Foreign Minister Stresemann, and Dr. Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, expedited the truce of warring factions. A rasping voice and a hint of a Roman triumvirate drove the Republican parties to agree that they might preserve their right to disagree...
...unscathed after thus brusquely throwing down the gauntlet, he reckoned without his host. The Antichrist of Baltimore snatched it up with zest, and in half as many words as his oppouent proceeded to score almost twice the number of points, of which the following is a fair sample: "You hint that I'd have acclaimed Arnold Bennett's novel "Riceyman Steps', if the author had been an American! I leave this insinuation to a candid world--and you to the mercy...