Word: pronunciamentoes
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...diplomatic soundings, followed by financial actions and economic threats against the French. It is obvious that much diplomatic correspondence has passed between the British Foreign Office and the governments of Italy, Belgium and Germany. It was necessary to get the first two nations on their side before making a pronunciamento on the Ruhr and reparations. It was equally necessary to have a tacit understanding with the Germans that they would be willing to accept British mediation along specific lines. This done, the bank rate was raised from 3% to 4%, partly as an act of pressure on France...
...official text of a pronunciamento from Charles E. Hughes...
...pronunciamento at Birmingham concerns also the artists and poets, the men of science and the men of thought. Who will suggest a fair set-off in lines of railroad laid down or in buildings put up for the "unsubstantial" creations of a Beethoven or a Mozart, a Verdi, a Gounod or a Wagner? How many feet of lumber cut, sawed and split-how many tons of coal raised from the mine and delivered-equal in value the influence on men of poems like the "Psalnt of Life," of songs like the "Marsellaise" and the "Star Spangled Banner"? Do I seem...
...announced that hereafter any man in his section who answers "not prepared" will not be called upon again during the remainder of the year. He also says that hereafter a certain mark will be given for work done in recitation. It is but a few weeks since a like pronunciamento was put forth by another and older instructor in the same department. This seems to us an entirely wrong principle to work on and a highly obnoxious one. To deprive a man of all chance of obtaining a certain mark for his study because he may have once been deficient...
...interesting object was observed a few days since in the freight-yard of the B. & A. R. R. branch in Cambridgeport. A freight-car bore a poster on which the figures '86 appeared in large characters as a heading, while below followed a pronunciamento beginning, "All men are created free and equal - except freshmen," and then giving a set of rules to govern the conduct of such, with decisive intimations as to what they must and must not do. On inquiry of the freight hands it was learned that the car came from Syracuse, N. Y., where there exists...