Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week's sessions of the Eighth Assembly and the forty, sixth meeting of the Council of the League of Nations, the note in his neighbor's eye disturbed each of the assembled statesmen. Much talk, some of it evasive, and little action proved that suspicion inbred for centuries cannot be bred out in less than a decade. But able critics agreed that discussions, however abortive, were better than the insidious silences, punctuated by subtle urbanity, of the old diplomacy...
...young Cyrus Hall Mc-Cormick of Virginia hitched four horses to "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine," and drove with noisy lurchings into neighbor's hilly oat field. Dogs barked, slaves giggled, small boys guyed as the clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. The owner of the oats called a halt. It took the young inventor months to convert anyone but his family to the reaper...
That situation the Harding administration tumbled over, with the re-organization of the Federal Reserve Board. President Harding's Comptroller of the Currency, his good friend & neighbor of Marion, Ohio. Daniel Richard Cris-singer, became Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, and the regional banks were required to submit rediscount rates only for approval of changes...
Governor William H. Adams of Colorado, R. C. Dillon of New Mexico, George H. Dern of Utah and Frank C. Emerson of Wyoming interviewed the Arizona and California groups separately, then prepared a compromise. But again the two neighbor states disagreed, California refusing to accept the arbitrators' figures on Arizona's present vested rights...
Britain professed her willingness to adhere to the Ambassadors' decision, and pressed for a cut of even 12,000 troops, ostensibly to propitiate the Germans but actually to cut expenses. France, still profoundly suspicious of her Teutonic neighbor, would reduce her troops only...