Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statesmen know, the League of Nations covenant already embodies the munitions embargo idea. So-called "irrec-oncilables," who kept the U. S. out of the League, last week stirred uneasily when they read the Capper resolution. Why, they asked, should a great U. S. industry be stifled just to pacify the quarrels of other nations...
...hewn from a single log of deep red narra wood from the Philippines. Present at the signing were no guests, no newspapermen, no servants, and only two photographers who scuttled out as soon as they had snapped the awesome scene. The door was then locked and Papal Attorney Pacelli read solemnly the text of the Italo-Papal agreement which he was largely instrumental in negotiating...
...Manhattan bankers who have finally put through Rumania's stabilization loan, after trying for years and years are Dillon, Read & Co., Blair & Co., Inc., and the Chase Securities Corp...
...fact that I have not read in the papers or periodicals any mention of any attempt having been made to start a movement toward the erection of a Museum of Peace, prompts me to write to ask if such a Museum has not been considered and if not your idea as to the practicability...
...whisperings in the parlor have done. Unfortunately to the rest of the country Lampy's attack has been branded as a personal ridicule of Mr. Harkness. The strained, vague and ill-humored gesture of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin helps to deepen this misunderstanding. If the present number be read with a tolerant attitude and in the spirit in which the editors have intended it should be read, there is little cause for accusing the Lampoon of either bad manners or insincerity...