Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next confronted with the usual arguments against preparedness. In this connection it needs only to be pointed out that there are other documents both subsequent and prior to Senator Owen's speech, which somewhat reduce the importance of this particular speech as a new discovery or bit of suppressed truth. The last communication is especially notable as a cool, and rather mature statement of one phase of Pacifism. To be a pacifist undoubtedly requires a struggle. It is a struggle with more or less natural feelings, with carefully inculcated ideas, with popular opinion. One disregards the facts who considers pacifism...
...economic domain. In any case, we shall always be at her side, and sustain her when necessary." Mr. Morgan evidently understands the French psychology very well; said he: "It is quite understood that Germany must pay you." He went on to state that nothing in the French situation prior to the fall of the franc justified a panic; that in fact France's national wealth had increased greatly during the past two years. The attack on the franc by France's enemies was only an attempt to take advantage of the temporarily critical situation of her internal debt...
After the opening of the Dedham Country Club of Dedham, Mass., on May 1, the team will practice there until the intercollegiate matches, which are scheduled to begin near the middle of May Just prior to the intercollegiates the team will go to Fort Hamilton, Long Island, to get in their final practice...
...scenes of the revue itself were for the most part lacking in originality. The first scene was the exception--being a dressing-room glimpse of the show, which only opened officially in scene 2. In scene 3 Allan Prior sang with much volume, but little distinctness, in "Flowers of Evil." Then came two pieces of royal buffoonery, introducing--first Queen Bess and Will Shakespeare, and second a red-haired Oedipus Rex. The act ended with "Her Wedding Day" buffoonery rather less royal, but more effective. The second act was very much in keeping with the first; while throughout the play...
After a stockholders' meeting that lasted from 3 in the afternoon to 12:30 at night, stockholders of Wilson & Co., famed packers, refused to adopt a plan of financing which called for the issuance of 250,000 shares of prior preference stock. Opposition to the plan was headed by the New York Stock Exchange firm of Tucker, Bartholomew & Co. which represented existing preferred stockholders, among who are included a few members of the Swift family, also famed packers...