Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the sharpest barb yet hurled at the Kellogg Peace Pact came last week from onetime Director Salvador de Madariaga of the Disarmament Section of the League of Nations. Wrote he to the London Times: "It is evident that a state which offers to renounce all but defensive wars (and that is what the American proposal means, despite its, in appearance, unqualified condemnation of war) renounces nothing at all so long as it retains the right to define when it is fighting a defensive...
...presented at Court to Their Britannic Majesties.* Neither are acrobats, ballerinas, lady ventriloquists, tight-wire dancers, professional fat women, female pugilists. But what about a lady monologuist? What about famed Ruth Draper, solitary U. S. aristocrat of the blatant sisterhood? Last week at the Third Court of the present London Season there were presented to Their Majesties, at Buckingham Palace, eight U. S. citizenesses: Mrs. Alton Brooks Parker, widow of the Democratic candidate for President of the U. S. in 1904. Miss Ruth Draper of Manhattan. Miss Lois Davidson, Houston, Tex.; Miss Neville T. Gherardi, Chevy Chase, Md.; Miss Francis...
...reproof of U. S. shipping conditions was the speech of Baron Kylsant, at the annual meeting of the White Star Line, Ltd. in London last week. Two years ago he bought the 25 White Star Line ships from the most important U. S. shipping enterprise, J. P. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine Co. for ?7,000,000 (TIME, May 17, 1926, et seq.). Last year he predicted a profitable year for the White Star Line under British ownership...
...SILENT HOUSE-A Chinaman takes his friends for a slay-ride in London (TIME...
...sitting in a temporary grandstand built on the edge of the Schuylkill River yelled themselves hoarse and the student band boomed and whooped as that beefy crew pulled past the judges' barge three quarters of a length ahead of Penn, with the Navy third. "Beat Yale at New London and then try for the Olympics!" cried Harvard old grads...