Word: national
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late King Edward VIIth's first automobile (a Daimler like George V's last) puffed and wheezed ahead of Captain Malcolm Campbell's 200-mile-an-hour Bluebird. There was a League of Nation's float and a Good Turn Truck on which a Boy Scout turned and flapped flapjacks...
...could focus the European money markets, and one able to recommend itself by its banking facilities. Above all they must have been moved by the strenuous fight made by the Agent General for Reparations to remove from German soil all vestiges of financial "control" and to enable the German nation to regard the reparations burden as a voluntarily assumed task making for the reconstruction of Europe...
...ultimate success of the experiment is dependent, not so much on the perfection of the machinery of the plan, but rather on the question as to whether the world is ripe for so comprehensive and so sweeping a sacrifice of national interests. The clause which provides that each nation may safeguard its national desires is reminiscent of the liberum veto and is attended with the same dangers. Although only the future can determine the success of the World Bank, it is certain that the plan is among the most progressive experiments...
...income of the trust, as stated in the deed, "Shall be applied annually for the maintenance of such number, of graduate scholarships in international law at the Harvard Law School as there shall be from time to time nations of the world with which the United States of America has diplomatic relations, including, however, as nations, for the purposes hereof the United States of America, the British self-governing dominions, and India, one of said scholarships to be available for a citizen or subject of each such nation...
JUNE MOON?The weird and ludicrous creatures who write the nation's songs...