Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...King," said the bulletin, "is now able to read and apply his mind for short periods of time. Complete recovery is still some months distant...
Days passed and Louisianans waited ?waited for their Governor Huey P. Long to deny charges leveled at him publicly in the papers of Col. Robert Ewing, Democratic National Committeeman from Louisiana. The charges which Governor Long was challenged to deny read...
...Slovak section of Czechoslovakia, carried to the local Mayor in some alarm a tremendous letter from Siam, emblazoned with the royal arms and addressed to His Excellency the President of Slovakia, Professor Mihalusz. What could this mean? Startled, the Mayor ripped open the envelope, grew pop-eyed as he read. With all the pomp and felicity of Oriental diplomacy, His Majesty King Prajadhipok declared himself graciously and inexpressibly pleased to accord full recognition de facto and de jure to the Sovereign Republic of Slovakia. There is, of course, no such state...
...joint mimeographed statement-the first released since the Second Dawes Committee assembled. Though couched in the most general terms, it was well calculated to quiet fears that the new Bank of International Settlement will prove a dangerous competitor of other banks and bond houses. "... The institution to be created," read the statement, "would strictly avoid competition with existing commercial and investment banking institutions and would consider it to be of prime necessity to act in close co-operation with existing central banks of issue. In fact, the bank would coordinate and subordinate its activities in any particular country with...
...temporal news of the new Papal State as "political news," Count Dalla Torre explained in a signed editorial that the Holy See's reconciliation with the Italian State was "entirely religious." It is believed in Rome that Count Dalla Torre never signs an editorial until it has been read and at least tacitly approved by the Supreme Pontiff. The Count is aware that the "entirely religious" Italo-Papal settlement is replete with references to specific plots of real estate, and is supplemented by a Financial Convention whereby the Holy See receives from the Italian State...