Word: sidereal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last Spring the French and their Continental allies put through with the con sent of the then Conservative British Government a resolution providing in effect that the Preparatory Disarmament Commission should not seek or even con sider ways of limiting either war mate rials held in peacetime readiness by a nation or the number of its trained re serves. Since the military might of France is chiefly based on the huge number of her annually conscripted reserves and the vast supplies of guns, shells and tanks always at their disposal, the pur pose of the French move was obvious. Last...
Concerning Governor Smith of New York, Mr. White remarked: "There will have to be a change in the attitude toward big business before Al Smith can ever go to Washington. Personally, I con- sider that Al Smith represents the biggest, best, keenest and cleanest brain in American public life to-day-and I am a Republican...
...What should we say of a man who would undertake to make Shakespeare acceptable to the masses by rewriting him in the language of a New York east-sider. For 'To be, or not to be: that is the question...
Egypt. Answering the criticism of Mr. Trevelyan, ex-Minister of Educa- tion, on Egypt, Mr. Chamberlain reiterated Britain's solemn determination to "regard as an unfriendly act any attempt at interference in the affairs of Egypt by another power, . . . to con- sider any aggression against the territory of Egypt as an act to be repelled with all the means at her command...
Education. Even Congressmen con-sider it important...