Word: mem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country and mankind!" Other delegates were as meaninglessly effusive. Then spoke blunt Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, famed President of the Reichsbank. Recalling the hate-pregnant past, when Belgium's Delacroix came to Berlin directly after the War as a trustee for German railway bonds and a mem ber of the commission which revised the statutes of the Reichsbank, gruff Dr. Schacht concluded with visible emotion: "I must say that the gentle and moderating influence of Monsieur Delacroix did much to remove our post-War difficulties." Humanitarians recall that during Leon Delacroix's two years as Prime Minister...
...whose chief beverage-is buttermilk. His favorite pastime is fishing in Ozark streams. A Methodist, he used to teach Sunday School so ardently that his enemies charged that he used this means of fostering his political career. He smokes cigars, likes chess, pie, plays pitch. He is a perspiring mem- ber of the Hoover Medicine Ball Cabinet...
...look at the case another way, to get the Harvard angle on the situation, consider what the entertainment of a jolly get together of business men will do for Memorial Hall. Think a moment, after all isn't that just what it needs--more pep! Not much doing in Mem Hall these days, and it has a tendency to get behind the times and collect dust. It needs to hear a little informal singing, not just symphony concerts, but the sort of thing that will want to make those old portraits speak up and call each other by their first...
...committee convened, France was asking twice as much for the repair of her devastated regions as she asked last week, and Mr. Young is credited with having persuaded the Allies to scale down the bill they would otherwise have presented by more than one-sixth. Ominous Predictions. Several mem bers of the Japanese delegation, previously closemouthed and ostentatiously "neutral," expressed to correspondents their private belief as individuals that the Second Dawes Committee would soon be on the rocks...
Smart British sahibs of Calcutta affected unconcern, when the Hindu Congress met, 6,000 strong, within strolling distance of the leafy Meidan, where sahibs and mem-sahibs take their aristocratic air of an evening. Actually anxious talk buzzed all up and down the English clubs and offices in Calcutta's busy Chawringhee. It was surely no good sign when the 6,000 delegates and their more than 11,000 sympathizers proceeded to burn huge piles of Made-in-England goods before sitting to business. Presiding hysterically over the bonfire, Pandit Nehru cried: "Hail, soldiers of Swaraj [Self-Determination...