Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negotiations. There were no clearly developed offers and counter offers as in the negotiations with the French. The two sides got together and gradually worked toward a settlement on the basis of Italy's capacity to pay. When the terms of the settlement were within reach, the Italians made an offer, the terms of which were carefully veiled from the public. Journalists got the idea that it was for the payment of $2,100,000,000 over 70 years. To this a counter offer was made by the Americans of about $2,500,000,000. From these two offers...
...made, when it had all been properly embodied in documentary black and white, Count Volpi set his signature to the agreement. Said Secretary Mellon: "Will you express to Premier Mussolini our appreciation of the character of the delegation which he sent to America and of the will to reach an agreement with which they were inspired...
...What is the antidote? The Bible in the public schools which will reach 27,000,000 children who receive no moral training in any other place. With 620,580 teachers in the United States, each one devoting ten minutes a day to the reading of the Bible and moral instruction, a wave of morality and good citizenship would be started which would reach every part of our Nation...
...merely writing to ask you if you can furnish me with the Oct. 5 issue of your magazine. For some reason it did not reach me-no doubt due to miscarriage 'of the mails. I have been a subscriber to TIME for two years or more and do not like to miss even one issue...
...more important still is the fact that the issues that have led to war between nations are rarely purely legal in character. They are political and economic, of a type which law cannot yet reach, and it is precisely these questions over which the court has no jurisdiction. Professor Hudson, one of the most ardent advocates of the League and the court, admits in his recent book that "It is chiefly with reference to non-juridical questions that nations are likely to fight. For the most part, the kind of case that comes before the courts, the kind of case...