Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...genuine offer from U. S. and Great Britain as to the third point would go far towards inducing France to modify her attitude...
Senator Hiram Johnson's Presidential aspirations underwent some strange evolutions. He attacked Secretary Hughes' offer to join in a reparations conference (TIME, Nov. 12). It was believed Mr. Johnson had found his issue. Then, last week, the conference apparently fell through (see page 6)?and Mr. Johnson was without an issue...
...brass band of the steamship Aquitania played The Star Spangled Banner, and Colonel George Harvey, retiring Ambassador to Grea Britain, walked down the gangplank onto Manhattan Island. He said a good word for Secretary Hughes' offer to participate in a solution of the reparations problem, a good word for his successor ?" Kellogg is the type of man the Britishers like"? and a good word for his black silk knee breeches?" They will be good to play golf in?say at Palm Beach this Winter?for they are not very thick...
...Earl Birkenhead: " Said I in a speech to Glasgow University students: 'The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout arms and sharp swords, and it is therefore extremely improbable that the experience of future nations will differ in any material respect from that which has happened since the twilight of the human race. It is for us, therefore . . . to maintain in our own hands adequate means for our own protection and, so equipped, to march with head erect and bright eyes along the road to our imperial destiny...
...Philippines offer a great field to the American investors, but the American will not be really interested there until the political situation becomes more stable. The American business attitude is much the same toward the Philippines as it has been in certain past cars toward Mexico. Mexico has great fields of exploitation, but the instability of the government is largely responsible for the hesitation of Americans in making Mexican investments. The instability of the Filipine government is not because of internal quarrels, but because of the uncertainty as to just what will be the future for the local government...