Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beach made a speech. Little Rollins, he said, needs a ten-million-dollar endowment. It needs buildings. Plans are drawn for "the most beautiful group of college buildings of this type of architecture in America. Hamilton Holt, the president, has made in California and in the Mediterranean countries a special survey of buildings suitable for the Florida climate and is now having architects draw plans calling for the best effects...
...week granted to Standard Oil interests right to sell Russian oil for which British companies, notably Royal Dutch-Shell, had long been striving. The Standard Oil rights included: 1) two years' monopoly of selling Russian oil in Egypt; 2) 500,000 tons of raw naphtha for sale in Mediterranean countries; 3) 500,000 tons of fuel oil for Standard Oil ship filling stations at Constantinople, Port Said and Colombo; 4) six years' rights to get oil for its tanker fleet from Russian Naphtha Syndicate tank stations at Marseilles, Genoa, Constantinople and Baku...
...decadated the struggle of a harassed and impoverished country for peace and freedom, that he has completed the first translation of the New Testament into Albanian, and that he is one of those few who have striven to carry the fruits of a new continent to the old Mediterranean. No less an infamous graduate of Harvard is John Silas Reed '10. He has been officially read out of membership in his class at Harvard, but under the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow, beside the gray stone tombs of Lenin and the leaders of the 1917 Revolution, there...
England and France, given former Turk lands in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria, have pushed the frontiers of empires further around the Southeastern shores of the Mediterranean. Italy, intent on the Trentino and Trieste in 1919, received little in addition to disappointing Tripoli except the control of Fuime on the Adriatic. Furthermore the appearance of Roumania and Jugo-Slavia as something more than the petty Balkan princedoms of Moldavia--Wallachia and Serbia gave her rivals more serious in many ways than Austria-Hungary had been. So the Peace of Versailles brought no peace to the Near East. Italy's interests traditionally...
...more cogent still. Mussolini holds sway in Rome, and Mussolini is an expansionist. He has already made Albania an Italian province in all but name, and he has cast longing eyes southward. Should England step out in the interests of the rights of nationality, Mussolini could best ride the Mediterranean as easily as he has the Adriatic and plant the Italian colors over the forts of Alexandria and perhaps worse yet over the Red Sea towns beside the Suez. The mere conception of such a possibility would be enough to send Winston Churchill stark mad. So England is taking every...