Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convention at Toronto. Militant crusader for his Labor party, he faced the militantly non-partisan A. F. of L. Nimbly he kept his verbal balance. Said he: "In Great Britain I am a party man, unashamed of it, glorying in it, but here today . . . I represent the whole nation." Abstractly he mentioned his Labor party's "revolution of the ballot box," then hurried on to footing less precarious. Fearlessly he generalized about war, common enemy of all laborers in or out of politics. "Labor," he said, "bears the burdens, the pains, the sacrifices of war. I come...
Veto. Also envisioned in the Young Plan was a veto proviso drafted last week at Baden-Baden to give the central bank of each nation power to limit or prevent any transaction of the B. I. S. in the country of the central bank in question or in its currency...
Among the other movies to be presented in the future are "Beau Geste," with Ronald Colman, "The Strong Man," with Harry Langdon, "The General," with Buster Keaton, and "The Birth of a Nation." These shows will be given about once a month, in the Living Room of the Union...
...from 19.25? to 17.25?, recovered somewhat, hit bottom the next day at 16.65?. Such a plunge, such an unsettling of coffee futures may spell eventually the loss of millions to coffee hoarding speculators, overloaded and waiting for a rise. Brazil, world's greatest coffee producer, is also the nation of most colossal coffee hoarding. Last week Vice President Benjamin B. Peabody of the New York Exchange unhesitatingly attributed the crash in coffee futures to "disquieting rumors regarding the situation in Brazil...
...suggest as strongly as did Strachey the lusty temper of the times, the era gorgeous with talent, studded with awesome genius. But she establishes herself again as an acute, comprehensive, sometimes vivid biographer, well-equipped to develop her summary of Elizabeth-"Her reign was a marriage, and the nation was her child...