Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the Duchess of Villeroy's fine new piano, she wanted one too. Who had built it? A certain young architect and engineer of Strasbourg named Sebastian Erard. Then let Sebastian Erard make another one for Versailles, let it be embellished with painting, gold-leaf and ivory. The instrument won the admiration of the court. Thereafter Piano-Maker Erard had more work than he and his brother could...
...week of intense negotiation with France over his proposed debt holiday (see p. 16). His eye roved across the placid Virginia countryside. Inside the "Town Hall" a telephone bell rang. It was Acting Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr. in Washington. The President, excited, almost leaped to the instrument. What was it? Another note from France. Was it satisfactory? No, it made serious proposals counter to the President's plan. Very well, the President would return immediately to Washington to help frame a reply...
...stead, man's one solicitude is to obtain his daily bread in any way he can, and so bodily labor, which was decreed by Providence for the good of man's body and soul even after original sin, has everywhere been changed into an instrument of strange perversion; for dead matter leaves the factory ennobled and transformed, where men are corrupted and degraded...
...Kellogg-Briand Pact "renounces war as an instrument of national policy." It has been accepted by almost all nations, including Russia. Before it was formulated M. Litvinov proposed a pact of "total disarmament" among all nations (TIME, Dec. 12, 1927). He was called a trickster. Russia, it was said, would only pretend to disarm under such a pact. Next year M. Litvinov was back with a plan for "partial disarmament" by all nations (TIME, April 2, 1928). Again he was sat upon, sneered...
...idea of checks and balances, of military alliances and understandings, to projects and methods for the peaceful settlement of disputes by arbitration and by conciliation, to the reduction and limitation of armaments, by agreement among nations, and to a solemn pledge not to resort to war as an instrument of national policy. I have been fortunate enough in my assignments as Charge d'Affaires in Switzerland and as Chief of the Western European Division in Washington to have had some part both in the efforts for general disarmament its contemplated by the Preparatory Commission of the League of Nations...