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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Important in the week's development was an announcement by U. S. Secretary of State Stimson officially quashing the possibility of the U. S. Government's participation in the proposed International Bank. Secretary Stimson said: "While we look with interest and sympathy upon the efforts of the committee of experts to suggest a solution and a settlement of the vexing question of German reparations, this government does not desire to have any American official directly or indirectly participate in the collection of German reparations through the agency of this bank or otherwise...
...weeks ago the subway workmen struck a cellar that had not been filled in. Unimaginative French laborers who crawled in to look about with smoky acetylene torches, quickly crawled back, actively sick with horror. The scientists who took their places last week were delighted...
...mulled by the coroner, complicate his decision to marry Arielle, young, beautiful, mysterious. Her mystery resolves itself into insanity. The coroner devotes the rest of his life to guarding Arielle. Undaunted, he insists: ... I believe, and ride By this belief vast wings from star to star; From which I look on death beneath as a shadow Thrown from a mountain by the rising sun; . . . the love of truth, The love of love, in spite of all the loss, The anguish, reckless hatred of our kind Sustain and justify and help to prove The inscrutable mission of the million years...
Back in the dull, depressed days of 1921 President Warren Gamaliel Harding appointed a committee to look into the matter of unemployment, to make a report upon this then burning question. When last week the Unemployment Committee announced its findings, neither President Harding nor unemployment remained a U. S. problem. It was primarily a Hoover Committee that made the report (President Hoover was Committee Chairman while Secretary of Commerce) and prosperity, not unemployment, was the burden of its story. Called upon to view with alarm, the Committee concluded by pointing with pride...
Said he: "When a man grows old as I have, he then feels like resorting to profanity, as he ought not to do, at the misconception of life and the use of the universities by feather-headed young men that don't look ahead to know the opportunities they have and to appreciate these opportunities. ... I don't want to criticize athletics or a great many extra-curriculum duties, but I think there is a great deal of time and money wasted on these things. . . . We must get our public and private schools down to a simpler curriculum...