Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four years Mr. Gilbert, a quiet, courteous, red-haired graduate of Rutgers, has been making the Dawes Plan work. Unquestionably his present report, with its searching analysis of Germany's capacity to continue her huge Reparations payments, will form the chief basis of fad upon which Tycoon Young and the Committee of Experts will base their decisions in revising the Dawes Plan...
...German goods which compete with Allied home production?the creditor powers will find it still to their advantage to knock off something from the German debt in return for a promise of more "cash" and less "kind." 3) The four years covered by the Report do not include the present so-called first Standard Year, in which the German Reparations annuity rises to its final level of 2,500,000,000 marks ($595,000,000). Even Agent General Gilbert cannot know from experience how well the burden of the Standard Years will be borne a decade or a generation hence...
...been thoroughly thrashed out and winnowed, last week, the Aga Khan deftly guided the Mohammedan Conference into adopting a resolution which absolutely ignored the Hindu demand upon Great Britain for ''Dominion Status." voicing instead merely the desire that Mohammedans should be accorded greater representation in the present native Assembly of the Government of India...
Since France is no longer a monarchy, the present dauphin or "crown prince" is?in political jargon?the man most likely to succeed stern, grizzled Raymond Poincaré as Prime Minister of France.* Just now Le Dauphin is by nearly unanimous consent M. Andre Pierre Gabriel Amedee Tardieu, called the "Most American of Frenchmen," brilliant, egotistical, dynamic, and holding the portfolio of Minister of Interior...
...week, as did a typical U. S. tycoon. (See INTERNATIONAL.) Interviewed, he admitted only that during the holidays he had kept up his golf.? To questions about "The Program of Realization" he curtly and characteristically replied, without attempting humor or evasion, "Rien, maintenant, messieurs!" (Nothing to say, at present, gentlemen...