Word: projection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further to harass the Commission, there was present in Geneva the author of the Russian project, Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, a round-faced, round-bodied but keen-witted little man who is Soviet Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs. Bustling straight to the point, he stood up before the Commission and charged that, although the League Assembly & Council have considered the problems of disarmament on 38 separate occasions, and although its deliberations have been continued by 14 committees during more than 120 series of sittings, still the fact remains -said Comrade Litvinov-that "not a single real step had been taken...
Faced by this project for speedy disarmament, could League slow-pokers retort successfully to the plausible if specious Soviet plan? Could they discredit it, tear it to tatters, and at the same time justify before public opinion the League's slow, plodding ways? Such a task required _a Cicero - or, as Anglo-Saxons said, later in the week - a Cushendun...
...other rumor, strongly confirmed, was that the Polish State Railways are expected to be transformed by negotiations now pending into a semiprivate corporation which will be financed by an $80,000,000 loan. Part of this issue would be floated in Manhattan by Blair & Co., and last week the project was reported to be waxing strongly, as President Albert Arthur Tilney of the Bankers' Trust Co. was rumored en route to Warsaw...
This is a further endeavor of the Liberal Club to examine the culture of the negro race, a project begun on March 15 with the debate "Resolved, That further intermixing of races in the United States is desirable...
...Conant '15, asistant professor of Architecture, has been reappointed to a fellowship, with his project the making of restoration drawings of the Abbey Church of Cluny in France...