Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...creditors insisted on a completion of payment under the Dawes Plan for the year ending January 1, 1930?a matter of some...
Quite satisfied with the dullness of the campaign was Stanley ("Safety First") Baldwin. Paused on the brink of the election, he issued to the press a statement which reminded U. S. citizens of "Keep cool with Coolidge" (1924), or for that matter of any statesman in power and up for re-election...
...Owen Seaman, who is approaching 70 and has edited "the most noted humorous magazine in the world" for 23 years, may consider the matter of Britain's next Prime Minister unimportant...
Duce turned next to the serious matter of beauty contests. Acting in his capacity as Minister of the Interior (one of his 8-out-of-13 Cabinet positions) he notified all prefects of Italian provinces that "beauty contests, with their consequent naming of 'queens' and 'princesses,' lower the moral standard of communities, and tend to dangerous exaltation of feminine vanity as well as constituting a parody on very serious matters." Therefore, let there be no more beauty contests. The "parody on serious matters" phrase was merely fresh evidence of how jealously Fascist Italy guards the dignity...
...last his countrymen must understand why he, after having been U. S. Ambassador to glamorous Spain, was willing to accept the little Peruvian portfolio. There was work to be done at Lima. He was needed to settle the Tacna-Arica question. Now he had attended to that matter, under President Hoover's guidance, of course. All this his smile seemed to imply -but it really meant nothing of the kind. The so-called Hoover Solution awarding Arica and its nitrates to Chile, and the twin mining province of Tacna to Peru, with a six-million-dollar payment by Chile...