Word: interes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Democratic deficits customarily have been allowed to run over until the eve of the following campaign, thus strangling with debt all inter-election activity. Even the two-million-dollar Republican deficit after the Harding election was not liquidated until 1923, and then only by dubious collections and split...
...crowning event the Council announces that Harvard is to withdraw from the inter-collegiate league. Comparing at a time when Harvard has just completed a not too successful season in the league where it has formerly held many championships, this resignation is open to unpleasant interpretation. The step is explained on the ground that Harvard needs freedom for experimentation and innovation. Others may perhaps recall that the number of league debates is limited, and that outside of these contests Harvard would still have opportunity for plenty of experimentation. Furthermore, to keep the league debates as a conservative balance against radical...
Nearly everyone in the U. S. wants to believe, does believe, that Germany is prosperous and can pay the sums demanded of her in Reparations (see Inter-national). The majority may be right again, but last week some very pessimistic information about the Reich was vouchsafed by an expert known to have the ear and confidence of U. S. President Herbert Hoover. Indeed this expert, Dr. Julius Klein, was responsible for building up under Secretary of Commerce Hoover one of the most favorably-known trade in formation bureaus possessed by any state. He has just returned from a series...
When the Canadian schooner I'm Alone, freighted with 2,800 cases of liquor to be smuggled into the U. S., went down 200 miles off the Louisiana shore under U. S. Coast Guard gunfire last fortnight, inter- national law experts were ready to stand up and cheer with delight (TIME, April 1). Here was a case to argue endlessly. It bristled with fine points, with nice distinctions. Many an analogy was drawn between rum-running in 1929 and African slave-running...
...final deed by which France would honor her "Little Warrior"* was to inter him in the only vacant sarcophagus left among those sarcophagi which are ranged about the gigantic, glistening red stone urn in which the Emperor Napoleon sleeps−bathed in purple light which filters through the Dome des Invalides...