Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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America is not by heritage or by established desire a peaceful nation. At many times circumstances have arisen suggesting war as the necessary alternative to humiliation or that deployment of national prosperity so ill attuned to the national car. Such times may well occur again, peace parliaments and leagues to the contrary notwithstanding. In show the moment for complete disarmament is as yet one with that visionary era of international goodwill toward which all possible effort must continuously he directed, but of which there is as yet no absolute certainly...
Permit me to express to the Editorial Department my keen delight in every number of TIME, its admirable condensed style, pithy news and incisive comments, at times caustic but never ill-natured, and also my admiration for the patience and toleration it shows to the microcephalic morons who so frequently vent their spleen and exhibit their ignorance in the puerile letters of complaint or protest over negligible trifles, which TIME fearlessly prints from week to week. May your circulation ever increase...
...inclose an interesting clipping from the Chicago Heights Star, Chicago Hts., Ill...
...first meeting resulted in adjournment for two days, the reason being that neither the delegate from Spain nor the delegate from Brazil was present. One was "ill, the other had pressing business." The real reason was that Spain and Brazil both demand to be made permanent members of the Council, and the other nations demur. If the strain grows too acute one or both of them may even withdraw from the League-at least that was the talk in Rio de Janiero...
Actually $202,503.40 have been deposited with the National Treasurer. The New York Committee, however, have on deposit $20,000 collected from school children in that city. Washington has $3,004, San Francisco has $3,500, Evanston, Ill., has $1,500, and Los Angeles $4,000 or more. From various other sources the Committee has been assured of amounts that will bring the total up just over...