Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Disarmament was the Dawes thesis. He wasted little time in coming to the point. After brief reference to the U. S. naval building program of $1,170,800.000 and mention of the Reparations Commission of 1924, he said...
Next Step. The Dawes and MacDonald speeches evoked pages of polite applause from the world press. What the next steps would be remained vague. Ramsay MacDonald flew down from Scotland to London, said "Flying is the only way to travel," but announced no further disarmament plans. His proposed visit to the U. S.? loudly protested by Tories as undignified toadying to a foreign country? disappeared for the time being into a mist of postponements and pleasant hypotheses. Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium who, at Geneva in May, first told the world about President Hoover's Yardstick...
...London the very Rev. William Ralph ("Gloomy Dean") Inge, author of Selections from the German Mystics, Personal Idealism and Mysticism, Types of Christian Saintliness, Speculum Animae, speaking last week to the Sunlight League, took note of Continental nudism and said: "There is nothing objectionable in it, but it is a matter of convention." He recited this limerick: Half an inch, half an inch shorter. The same skirts for mother and for daughter, When the wind blows, everything shows. Both what should and what hadn't oughter...
Soviet reports of drought and dry winds following a late spring sowing have again come out of the Volga grain belt. The peasants are said to be worrying not only for their grain but for their potatoes. During the War and the subsequent Revolution when all else failed there were still potatoes to dull hunger-boiled and eaten with the skins...
...Church will win, it always wins in the long run," Tabasco's Diaz had said, when exiled to the U. S. in 1927. Now the Church had won, and Rome was putting her champion in command...