Word: seven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whom to invite by the governors of the respective banks of issue who all chose financiers from within their own organizations. Thus keen, patrician Montagu Collet Nor:nan, Governor of the Bank of England, chose a famed member of its board, Sir Charles Stewart Addis, sire of six sons, seven daughters. A leading director, of the great Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Sir Charles has interests throughout ; Asia, is chairman of :the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank of London. He succeeded the late Baron Revelstoke as junior British representative of the Young Plan Committee (TIME, April...
...note represented strenuous efforts by the President and seven U. S. admirals to go rather more than half way to meet Mr. MacDonald's ideas of how the U. S. and Britain should achieve first naval parity and then mutual reduction of armaments. Pleased, but unwilling to make a snap decision without expert judgment, the Prime Minister personally rang up the Admiralty, asked First Lord Albert Victor Alexander to step over. When he came and approved the Hoover offer Scot MacDonald hesitated no longer. For more than a month he had been unable to say definitely whether...
Complacently the honest men smirked, but they did not relax. They knew that tart, vital words would follow the fulsome compliment. Two days previously Il Duce had given his Cabinet the most dramatic shaking up in the history of his regime. He had kicked himself out of seven* of the eight Cabinet ministries he previously held -retaining only the portfolio of Interior and of course the Prime Ministry. Wildest rumors were current as to what this might portend: 1) That he had negotiated a secret pact of union between Italy and Hungary and was clearing his decks to become Supreme...
Grandi. First of the seven is theatrically handsome Dino Grandi-he of the luminous eyes, by turns smouldering or aflame-he of the virile, bursting beard. Appointed Foreign Minister last week, Signer Grandi was promoted from Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs. During the past few years he has been the actual representative of Italy before the League of Nations and at important international gatherings like The Hague Conference. He has gone everywhere while Il Duce has not stirred out of Italy-doubtless fearing assassination. Thus Signor Grandi has been for a long time de facto Foreign Min- ister...
...idea lacks only seven centuries, an aristocracy, royalty, an established church, royal characters, religious persecutions, a list of martyrs, and a national temperament for the cloister in education, pedigreed restriction in competition, a desire to wear a gown as a muffler around the neck, and a determination to get rid of the cheer leaders without killing them...