Word: protractedness
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Premier Herriot then proposed Premier MacDonald as President of the Conference. The motion was seconded by Premier Theunis of Belgium and carried unanimously. After this protracted exchange of banalities, the Conference settled down to work. The result of the first morning's session was the establishment of three committees...
After a protracted period of futile negotiations with the Monarchists, Chancellor Marx told President Ebert that he had decided to continue in power with the old Cabinet (TIME, Dec. 10). The first appearance of the Cabinet in the Reichstag was greeted with howls of derision from the Communists. Referring to...
The recently concluded treaty between China and Russia (TIME, June 9) undoubtedly established the true status of Mongolia, as that was the outstanding agendum in the protracted conference at Peking. The terms of the treaty have, however, not yet been published.
After the protracted struggle in the Chamber of Deputies (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.) the Emergency Taxation Bill, which had since the fall of the franc become indispensable to the negotiation of the loan of $100,000,000 from J. P. Morgan & Co., faced the possibility of defeat in the...
Presupposing success for the Obregonistas, the civil war, if fought to a finish, is sure to be a protracted affair. Each army as it retires destroys the railway lines, thus hindering an advance.