Word: renew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty to Parliament. The Cabinet declared through the King-Emperor that: I. The Government remains inflexible in its program of sending troops to China to defend British interests, if and where necessary, but is resolved not to wage war formally with China. II. The Government wishes to renew the Anglo-Chinese treaties "on an equitable basis." III. The Government will introduce during the present Parliamentary session two notable bills: 1) an act to defend British cinema makers against foreign (U. S.) competition; 2) a law limiting the right of British workingmen to strike...
...British and Indian subjects against mob violence and armed attacks. . . . But . . . my Government has caused proposals to be made to the Chinese authorities which should convince public opinion in China and throughout the world that it is the desire of the British people to remove all real grievances, to renew pur treaties on an equitable basis and to place our future relations with the Chinese people on a footing of friendship and good-will." Some U. S. citizens read the daily newspapers carefully, and, knowing that Mr. Rogers was laboring hard over his wit, excused his deliberate misquotation...
...those who like TIME, but find the type entirely too small. For Heaven's sake give us less reading matter and larger type. Everyone is complaining of it. If you will enlarge the type and assure you there is a great demand for it, I will renew my son's subscription with pleasure but otherwise-not. All the magazines are taking notice of the demand of the public for good type. M. AMES CUSHMAN...
...have before me a letter urging me to renew my subscription to TIME. If TIME were the magazine that this letter describes, I would cheerfully and hastily renew. Would that it were...
...correspondents assigned to the Senate gazed down from the gallery back of the Vice President into the face and figure of Senator Heflin. The Senator was talking of them. Stung to his feet by the bantering of Senator Copeland of New York, he had risen to renew his attack upon the Catholic influence (TIME, Jan. 31). He had predicted that Dr. Copeland (red carnation) would lose his seat "unless he did some toe-kissing before the next election...