Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left vacant by Viscount St. Davids. As the room quieted to a deadly hush, Baron Kylsant glanced sharply at the vacant chair, frowned, then swept the room with penetrating gaze until his eyes met those of Viscount St. Davids. Tycoon glared at tycoon, brother at brother. The seconds felt like hours. Then Baron Kylsant nodded sharply, pointed imperatively to the empty chair. Neither brother spoke. They are not on speaking terms. But Tycoon Kylsant's victory seemed perfect and complete when Tycoon St. Davids rose abruptly, crossed to the Directors' table, shook hands with His Grace of Abercorn...
Diplomacy-as so many diplomats so often assert-is a profession. Last week, like a clan of impeccable Harley Street physicians shuddering over the success of some popular "bone setter," the established diplomatic practitioners of London winced anew at Charles Gates Dawes. Publicly, with hearty fist-bangs upon a London banquet table, the U. S. Ambassador had just rasped and barked...
Besides his conduct and "pact of friendship," Guest Dawes gave the members of the Travel Association of Great Britain & Ireland "a few practical suggestions to ponder." "The ideal of your association" he explained, "is to bring people together in mutual friendship and mutual understanding. The methods of an organization like this should be adjusted not to human reasoning, but to human nature.* I have an invitation from the Mayor of Sudbury to go down there to receive the freedom of the town. Sudbury is where my people came from centuries ago. That invitation appealed to me; it touched something...
...General Director must have felt as proud as a flea that had whelped a whale. Too modest and certainly too wise to boast, STIMMING compressed his exultation into three sentences that spoke volumes, "Mein herren" he said in his always calm low voice to correspondents. "Gentlemen, every one likes to talk in periods of decades -of ten years. It is always a case of how things were ten years ago. But I should like to remind you that only eight years ago, thanks to the terms imposed upon Germany at Versailles, the total shipping carrying the flag of the North...
...Like a luscious, dangling fruit is Manchuria, granary of the Orient, the only part of China not impoverished by war and famine, a prosperous land that absorbs annually $36,000,000 worth of U. S. goods. Last week the growling and hissing of Russian Bear and Chinese Dragon over the Manchurian prize grew increasingly furious until the two Great Powers clawed warily at each other, drew a few spurts of soldier blood. Such was the smoke screen of lies set up by both antagonists that alert observers could set down only a few vital, verifiable developments...