Word: importent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newshawks Tsar Hays spread a grin of satisfaction between his far flung ears and succinctly explained the new agreement as follows: "The principal point is that it eliminates the necessity of buying French films to show in America. It provides that with every film produced in France hereafter seven import permits will be issued. We shall be able to get these permits for our films in three ways. If an American company produces films in France permits will be issued to it. Or an American company may buy a French film and permits, but is under no obligations to exhibit...
Caribou and reindeer are extremely insistent on having the right climate; the caribou will compromise somewhat on food, but the reindeer goes on a hunger strike unless it is fed reindeer moss, a delicacy difficult to obtain, and impossible to import...
...longer needed to carry out the primary aims of its originators, the question arises as to whether there is, or might be, any essential function for it to perform. During the last few years it has issued a number of reports on various matters of educational or social import. These reports have on the whole been capably handled and have been productive of much discussion and some practical results. Their chief weakness has lain in their over-ambitiousness. A complete system of educational reform drawn up by a Student Council committee may have much value in some of its individual...
Such testimony from an Elder Statesman with the majestic record of Tang Shao-yi is of weightiest import. His career began, like that of Candidate Hoover, in the development of large engineering enterprises and led to government posts comparable in China to that which Mr. Hoover now holds in the U. S. Tang Shao-yi was Managing Director of the Imperial Railways of North China in 1900, and shortly afterwards became High Commissioner of Customs under the patronage of the great Viceroy of Chihli and subsequent President of China Yuan Shih-kai. Before the advent of the republican regime, Tang...
...political thunderbolt, craftily prepared, was hurled by Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka, last week, in an effort to weaken the Opposition parties by discrediting their extreme left wing, the Ronoto or Farmer-Laborites. The vital import of the Ronoto is that its two Deputies give the Opposition a theoretical plurality of two over the Government parties, in the newly elected Diet (TIME, March 5) which will shortly assemble. Numbers: Opposition, including Ronoto, 228; Government, 226; and Independents...