Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Briand. After hearing Mr. Chamberlain's speech, the Council adjourned for luncheon; and M. Briand had three hours in which to prepare his reply and to obtain a confirmatory statement from his Government in Paris. When the Council reassembled, it was obvious that the impression made by Mr. Chamberlain's well-reasoned reading of his Government's document was gloomy; as M. Briand subsequently put it: "I had the impression of being in blackness, in a tunnel where there was no light." Rising, however, in a later session, M. Priand, seven times Premier of France, vigorously assailed...
...Wilhelm Marx, cleric, is candidate of the Centre or Catholic Party. Last year, Dr. Marx was Chancellor in succession to Chancellor Stresemann. Recently, he was appointed Minister President of the Prussian Government (TIME, Mar. 2) but failed to obtain a vote of confidence and had to resign...
Britain. Came Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain to Paris en route to Geneva to attend a meeting of the Council of the League of Nations. He had come, he said, to obtain information and not to enter into agreements. From what was known of his conversations with Premier Edouard Herriot, he admitted that British interest was bound up with the preservation of the Franco-German boundary, by which he meant that Britain could not tolerate an unfriendly Power in possession of the Channel ports and the obvious place to prevent an unfriendly Power from seizing those ports is along the Franco...
...satisfactory a plan practically identical in every respect to the one we recommend. Last year's class at the University adopted an endowment insurance with much the same arrangements as we have, and they have found that the system gives very good results. We have been fortunate enough to obtain somewhat more liberal terms from the insurance company than the class...
...disbursed to thousands of people and not to a few big industrialists. He said that the Government was legally and politically justified in making the grant, which was necessary to prevent the separation of the Ruhr from Germany. He furthermore denied that the Government had only recently offered to obtain the Reichstag's ex post facto sanction for the credits, welcomed a thorough investigation of all payments...