Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conference of Premiers of the British dominions, assembled in London. The acceptance of this plan by the British Government ended a long period of negotiation (TIME, Aug. 13) in which Secretary of State Hughes tried to make arrangements for searching rum ships which remain outside the three-mile limit. The British Government had little objection to helping America make itself dry, but it was entirely disinclined to relinquish the three-mile limit for territorial waters. Its reasons for this pertained purely to naval strategy in European waters...
...vessels will have the right to search British ships for rum "within an hour's sailing distance of the American shore." This gives the U. S. Government all the authority that it may desire for checking the activities of ships supplying rum runners beyond the three-mile limit...
...will reaffirm the sacredness of the three-mile limit for territorial water. In this manner the question of preventing rum smuggling is entirely divorced from the legal restriction of three miles on territorial waters?the restriction which Britain would not waive...
...Poincare accepted the British Government's proposal that a common Allied invitation be sent to the U. S. inviting that nation to participate in a reparation conference under the aegis of the Reparations Commission. He held that the experts taking part in the conference must limit their advice to specifying Germany's " present" capacity to pay reparations...
Meanwhile, the prices of concert seats have remained stationary. It is believed, probably quite correctly, that symphony concert box office rates reached the high limit long ago, that any increase would cause a disproportionate falling off in attendance. Occupants of orchestra and box chairs at the Metropolitan or Chicago Opera Company are moneyed people. But concert halls are filled with comparatively poor folk, and simple esthetics do not attract the wealthy strongly enough to fill high-priced stalls...