Word: josiah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief exposition of the proposed plan, and almost at once Japan's Kenjo Mori rose to voice warm approval. Previously extreme pessimism had been the attitude of the Japanese chief delegate (TIME, April 22, et seq.). Within a few moments it was evident that Britain's quiet Sir Josiah Stamp would back the Young Plan. Only the French and their Continental Allies looked glum...
...first laboratory at Harvard where chemistry was taught experimentally to undergraduates was established by Professor Josiah P. Cooke in a cellar in the north end of University Hall in 1850. It was to the instruction given here that President Eliot referred when he wrote many years later...
Reparations problem. As the work progressed no public utterance was made by any member of the U.S., French, German or Japanese delegations, but the British and Italian chief delegates expressed themselves briefly. Sir Josiah Stamp: "There are three sides to our problem-political, financial and economic. And as soon as we-or any one else-have finished with one aspect, another bobs up. "It is impossible for any one to take account of all three at the same time and it is not in the province of the experts [of the Second Dawes Committee] to do so. They are trying...
Signor Alberto Pirelli: "We are building a nice house, but we are not yet sure what its dimensions are to be and we don't know what furniture we are going to put into it." Against the fiscal defeatism of Sir Josiah Stamp, the studied pessimism of the Germans, and Signor Pirelli's attitude of uncertainty, the U.S. Delegates were understood to be strongly militating for a solution, with the well-nigh irresistible impetus of their moral and financial prestige...
...Dominion of the British Crown?" Specifically this question was asked, in a large and lofty way, by several M. P.'s of each British party-Conservative, Liberal and Laborite-who assembled last week in London to found the Seventh Dominion League. Sat, as chairman of the meeting, Colonel Josiah Wedgewood, M. P. (Labor), flanked by Lieutenant-Commander Joseph Kenworthy, M. P. (a Liberal until 1926, now a Laborite), and by Lord Hartington, M. P. (Conservative), heir of the 9th Duke of Devonshire (Conservative), who fought for the Empire in Egypt, at the Dardanelles and in France...