Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Statesman Stimson remembered, got out, and ruffled the unused pages of the so-called Four-Power Treaty which the U. S., Britain, France and Japan drafted in 1921. A phrase in this treaty makes it possible for the Four Powers to discuss "freely and fully" almost any Far Eastern matter. Statesman Stimson sent for his excellency Paul Claudel, Ambassador from the other parent country of the Kellogg Treaty and one of the Four Powers. He also called in the British, Japanese and Italian representatives to tell them what went on. Soon from Washington to Moscow, via Paris flashed word that...
Founding a Sikorsky company in the U. S. was to him a matter of course and selfesteem. He wants no anonymity of accomplishment. But he does not like business details. He is primarily an engineer. Many a Sikorsky order, many a deal, has been delayed by Inventor Sikorsky's futile enthusiasm for improvement, remodeling. He is almost the last of the big independent designers to succumb to the industry's merger movement...
...remaining short-wave-length radio channels not in use, the Commission allocated 20 transcontinental channels for the sole use of newspapers and press associations to transmit news. Under the American Publishers Committee, a number of public utility corporations were to be formed to handle wireless press matter. But the problem was not solved, the Commission soon discovered. Loud were the cries of newspapers and news services charging unequal allotment, curtailment of their radio press facilities, expense of organization...
...gesture," replied that as a "gesture" he thought it would be "very weak." Kentucky's Senator Barkley (Democrat) pointed out that it was "no gesture" to reduce tariff on "something that does not matter while increasing it on things that do." Nevertheless, foreign countries must reduce their duties on U. S. cars to 10% to get the benefit of the U. S. 10% duties on their cars. And certainly every piercing U. S. automotive eye is at present turned toward Europe...
Members of Parliament were incensed at the Bishops' action. Laborite Holford George Wilfrid Knight promised to take up the matter at once with Prime Minister MacDonald, to make the Bishops "set an example to the nation of obedience to law and respect for the sanctity of a contract...