Word: must
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Refreshed by three days of comparative quiet, chunky, white-chinned Raymond Poincare, Prime Minister of France, stepped quickly to the rostrum, of the Chamber of Deputies last week. It was his final chance to convince the truculent Chamber that they must ratify the Mellon- Berenger debt agreement, a matter upon which not only France's commercial credit but the future of the Poincare government depended. M. Poincare's step was confident. Since the Chamber adjourned the week before a new weapon, a new persuader, had come into his hands. Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, had announced that...
...must ratify, and we must ratify in a form which will permit our creditors to accept our ratification. It is not a question of ratifying the debts. We have already recognized our debts. What we have got to ratify is the accords which have given us delays for settlement...
...north coast is Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transposes Aereos, commonly called SCADTA. Head of SCADTA is redoubtable Dr. Peter P. von Bauer, an Austrian who has become a Colombian citizen. He is the aeronautical yes-no man of the country. Whoever wishes to touch Colombia with aviation lines must man fully deal with him. Pan-American traded rights with him in order to complete its Caribbean line from Panama to Port of Spain, Trinidad. He demanded and received the right to run SCADTA planes from Barranquilla, Colombia, to Panama...
...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...
Last week in the Churchman was launched a drive, by no means the first, to reinstate Bishop Jones, socialist, pacifist, hater of war as unchristian, the man during the late War, accused of being pro-German, said: "I believe most sincerely that German brutality and aggression must be stopped and I am willing, if need be, to give my life and what I possess to bring that about." He questioned that war was the right method, and, therefore, since he was in conflict with his government and his Church, lost his diocese. Today the Protestant churches are pacifistic. No longer...