Word: questionably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chatting amiably and informally last week, Prime Minister Raymond Poincare answered a correspondent's pert question: "Mon cher Président* why don't you declare yourself a Dictator? Moi, j'aime les Mussolinis, les Primo de Riveras, les Pil-sudskis...
Recently this quickening question occurred to paunchy but smart M. Edouard Herriot, onetime Prime Minister of France (June, 1924-April, 1925), and still, after many and many years, Mayor of the great industrial city of Lyons. Last week a brand new play by versatile Mayor Herriot was being rehearsed in Paris, and the prognostication was that it would be called: Napoleon, Empereur de I'Ameri...
...negotiations between Russia and Rumania have been brought to a successful conclusion and our Minister to Warsaw, M. Davila, will sign the Litvinov protocol at Moscow. . . . Rumania considers the Bessarabian question is finally settled. The Soviet has thus taken a step toward the restoration of normal relations with the Border States...
This statement can only mean that Rumania has received what she considers a satisfactory assurance that Russia-will not in future try to get back Bessarabia. Any other understanding would not, from the Rumanian point of view, leave the Bessa-rabian question "finally settled...
Federal Reserve Power. Speculators have long since realized that Federal Reserve authorities disapprove of their activities. The important question lies in what steps the Federal Reserve can take to translate disapproval into the actual cutting off of credit. Discussions of the power of the Federal Reserve Board (as distinct from its opinions) is obscured by the popular conception of an all-powerful group of government appointees sitting in Washington and turning credit on and off like firemen playing a hose...