Word: howelis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seldom or never before has the representative of a Great Power made-up-as-he-went-along such vital words. Broach ing the problem of how the numbers of soldiers should be reduced, Mr. Gibson said, speaking of the Draft Convention over which the Commission has been dawdling for years...
It was President Herbert Hoover of the U. S. who opened the statesmen's chess game at Geneva, last week, by advancing a sprightly pawn, Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium. The civilized world attended while dapper Mr. Gibson addressed the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission as...
3) Against the thesis of the British Admiralty that a nation's requirements for defense are absolute (specifically in the instance of light cruisers), Herbert Hoover maintains, as did Calvin Coolidge. that they are relative. Thus the British have insisted that they need a certain number of light cruisers, irrespective...
How long a rich and elderly English couple should keep their motor cars and what sort to buy when replacement becomes necessary are two questions which Their Britannic Majesties answered last week by setting an example. They have used their three personal cars for five years. They took delivery of...
The solemn public duty of being whimsical weighs a little heavier each year on Sir James Matthew Barrie. Last week the aging Baronet again consented to do his whimsiest. A good many people hoped it would be better than last year, when the creator of Peter Pan opened a fair...