Word: primes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House telephone tinkled. Secretary George Akerson answered it. His Chief was calling from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Now, said the President, it could be told: he and Prime Minister MacDonald had agreed to have the latter issue invitations to France, Italy and Japan to discuss naval reductions with Britain and the U. S. in London on Jan. 20. The invitations would go out on the morrow (see p. 27). Like most momentous news it was very simple. There was nothing more to say - yet - about the historic "conversations." So the President helped the world press...
Birthday. Georges Clemenceau, French War Prime Minister; at St. Vincent-sur-Jard. Age: 88. Said he: "My mother lived to be 83 years old, my father, 87. At 88, I am in the danger zone. I do not ask for death, neither do I fear it. I await it. I shall die this year...
Died. Baron Giichi Tanaka, 66, onetime (1927-29) Japanese Prime Minister, leader of the Seiyukai (Conservative) Party; at Tokyo; of angina pectoris...
...Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald begins 21-day visit to U. S. and Canada; Oct. 25 sails from Quebec for England...
...Significance. Nearly every action of Carry Nation's career provoked in the public mind a lurid distortion of the saloon of her times. She was one of Prohibition's prime instigators. Author Asbury has done her the justice of weighty, lively, analysis...