Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well calculated to quiet fears that the new Bank of International Settlement will prove a dangerous competitor of other banks and bond houses. "... The institution to be created," read the statement, "would strictly avoid competition with existing commercial and investment banking institutions and would consider it to be of prime necessity to act in close co-operation with existing central banks of issue. In fact, the bank would coordinate and subordinate its activities in any particular country with and to the policies of the existing central bank of that country. "The new bank would be in no sense...
...recent exhibition of the John Barnard Associates, held in the Treasure Room, there is a real and very satisfying interest in the well-printed book, in typography. There are two causes for this. One is the very fine work some of our modern presses are doing, but the prime cause can be traced directly to Professor Winship's influence, his love for the work, his energy, and his never-failing courtesy in answering questions and displaying the treasures the University has placed in his care...
...Smuts is what ladies call "a very good and exceedingly plain woman." When the General was Prime Minister (1919-1924), she was not to be dissuaded from appearing at the most glittering State banquets in homely carpet slippers with a knitted shawl over her old-fashioned ''party dress." Withal, however, Mrs. Smuts seems to get on very placidly with her doughty General, who, during the War, captured most of German South Africa for the Empire...
Monsignor Anton Koroshetz was until recently Prime Minister of Jugoslavia...
Another significant development of last week was King Alfonso's flat refusal to receive a deputation of three former Prime Ministers,* who asked for an audience in order that they might jointly urge upon His Majesty "the imperative need for some modification of the dictatorship." They were informed by the palace majordomo, the Duque de Miranda, that "the King is loath to intervene in the present situation...