Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lofty precincts of the Lord High Chancellor. Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call to the Lord High Chancellorship another "sound lawyer," Attorney General Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg. But Sir Douglas is much more than a sound lawyer with a greater legal earning power than any Britisher except Sir John Simon...
Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France wants to sign a two-power treaty "outlawing war" between his country and the U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg insists that the treaty be a multi-power affair "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy." Out of the clash of these two concepts has come a nine-month long game of diplomatic bean bag (TIME, July 4, 1927). Last week M. Aristide Briand sent one more note to Washington from which it appeared that the French position is now, in substance, as follows...
...Great Britain, Italy, Germany and Japan should be invited to state whether they would adhere to the formula of a multi-power treaty which should be submitted to them by the U. S. and France...
...power plants must include not only hydro-electric but steam-driven generators. "We must mix the white coal [water power] with the black coal [thermic power]," declares Signor Motta, "[to] make up for the deficiency of water power in years of minimum rain fall...
Several of Harvard's future opponents are now on the road for the spring recess games and will meet the same nines against which the Crimson will play. The results of these clashes will serve as an early opportunity to estimate the power of the University's rivals...