Word: minding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon the instruments of War last week President Hoover bent a mind primed for Peace. Logic and economy were his inspirations: logic, to make U. S. national defense congruous with the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War; economy, to make a tax cut possible...
Secretary of State Stimson, alive to the embarrassment of the situation, cogitated in his office. He could, of course, communicate what was on his mind to Nationalist China, but to Soviet Russia he could not speak. The U. S. does not recognize the Soviet's existence. Lawyerlike, 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...
What Mr. Edgerton had in mind when he implied that the tariff rates were not so important as their administration was the two conflicting methods of valuing imports for customs purposes. One method, called Foreign, values an article at its fair sale price in the country of production, i.e., the price at which the importer buys it. The other method, called U. S., values an article at the U. S. sale price of a similar article. Illustration...
...Otho remembers his family motto "Up, Belleme! ... I Saye and I Doe," gets up from the floor, knocks the Negro out, thus proving the naive hypothesis that "though an English gentleman's strength and insensibility might be inferior to those of a Negro, his spirit might be superior. . . . Mind triumphant over matter." Be-ing champion of Europe makes Otho friends again with Margaret...
Cousin Stanley (leader of the Opposition) : "I think it would interest the House to know if such a visit [to the U. S.] is in the Prime Minister's mind, and whether he proposes to seek His Majesty's permission to make that visit. I think a visit of that nature is absolutely right. I have always felt both countries suffered very much because of the absence of personal intercourse between American and English statesmen...