Word: panning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of fact a great deal was accomplished concerning several pressing matters of this hemisphere. Some progress was made in the codification of international law, both regarding public and private relations. The Pan-American Union was for the first time put on a treaty basis, and its functions enlarged and defined. An important aviation treaty was also drawn up. The principle of the compulsory arbitration of all disputes susceptible of judicial settlement was adopted, and provision made for a conference in the near future to draw up appropriate treaties...
...Kellogg's only argument for adoption of his plan is based upon the anti-war resolution signed at the Pan-American Conference by seventeen nations of the New World which are also members of the League of Nations. The only inference drawn from this by France is that someone has been preying upon the innocent, and that, since it isn't Mr. Bryan, then it must be Mr. Hughes...
...great powers on the question of ignoring Article X and forming a posse, with Sheriff America at its head, to hunt down the outlaw Mars. Meanwhile America is preparing a great navy building program with one hand while with the other she pens with dove's quill resolutions for Pan-American Conferences and Franco-American treaties of amity. Meanwhile the paradox at home has an international twin; only one obstacle of size stands in the way of a multilateral treaty outlawing war among the great powers. That obstacle is the League of Nations...
...Secretariat of the Pan-American Conference...
...Pan. The adventurous and inquisitive Provincetown Playhouse tucked darkly away in downtown Manhattan has made another rabid experiment. One Michael Swift, distressed at many phases of U. S. life, particularly at the craze for gold, has collected his complaints in a play. He sets it in the California gold rush days and much of it occurs in a boisterous bar. Gold is discovered under the floor. There is a gold rush. Bright scarlet women circulate suggestively. Men howl for whiskey. There is no pretense at connected story. Mr. Swift is seemingly as much at war with dramatic forms as with...