Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stroke of ill-luck, the one really pressing matter that came before the new Cabinet as soon as it was formed was a matter in the province of the one new Cabinet member who had not reached Washington?the new Secretary of State, Colonel Stimson. There was little doubt that the leaders of the Mexican revolt (see p. 27) timed their uprising in order to catch the new administration off its guard in hope that its support of the existent regime in Mexico would be weak...
...Geneva last week the Opinion of Elihu Root proved to be, in effect, a statement of the conditions under which the State Department now believes it possible to obtain the U.S. Senate's consent to U.S. adherence to the World Court. When this matter was last mooted, in 1926, the Senate produced famed "Reservation V"?considered by most Europeans and by nearly all South Americans as an unparalleled piece of arrogance. While agreeing that the U.S. should adhere to the Court, the Senate stipulated in "Reservation V" that thereafter the Court must not without the consent of the United...
...Koyanagi, Assistant Naval Attache of the Japanese Embassy in Moscow. Reason: "private." The following cryptic utterance arrived from Moscow the next morning: "It is needless to state a painful impression has been created in foreign diplomatic circles . . . when parties grow so rowdy that neighbors protest, the case becomes a matter of public interest...
...Misunderstood! By critics especially and by my colleagues and rivals. They do not know that my art is different from that of any other singer. For them singing is a matter of doing beautifully the lines of the melody...
...flight methods of eagles, kites, pelicans and buzzards. The tenor of the whole magazine was calculated to encourage more people to buy more planes, to make the grass grow green upon the lawns of aviation country clubs. In the West, where amateur flying is already pretty much a matter of course, The Sportsman Pilot may seem precious. In the East it should help the air to become fashionable and populous...