Word: sit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upon the President devolved, last week, perhaps the last world-great decision of his administration. He must choose two men of the U. S. to sit on the new Reparations Committee destined to revise the Dawes Plan (TIME. Jan. 14). These men will not sit for the U. S. since officially the administration is not concerned. Technically, the European Powers will revise the Dawes Plan of their own motion and volition. The two U. S. citizens will merely advise, and the U. S. public will merely buy some millions of dollars' worth of reparations bonds, if they are issued...
...plan for a businessman's administration. The plan, as announced by Silas Hardy Strawn, onetime (1927-28) president of the U. S. Bar Association, calls for cooperation with the regularly constituted municipal authorities, rather than the creation of a new city government. Thus, for instance, a famed engineer would sit at the right hand of the city's Director of Public Works. A famed banker would lend talent to the City Treasurer. The leader of this business group would presumably have access to the Mayor's office. These businessmen would receive no salary from the city; their services would...
...that they really did not know where Chairman Owen D. Young might be. This fact, convenient, frustrated for a time all efforts to confirm the flat statement of M. Poincaré that Mr. Young would positively sit on the Committee of Experts...
First. Prime Minister Raymond Poincare of France announced at Paris that Tycoon Owen D. Young had accepted a joint Allied and German invitation to sit on the new Committee of Experts as one of two U. S. members. This meant that the revised Dawes Plan will probably go down in history as the Young Plan. Among those who might object would not be Vice President Charles Gates Dawes. Just and modest, General Dawes has already said (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926) that the original Dawes Plan was largely the work of one of his colleagues on the Reparations Commission, none other...
...luck to commit before thousands of spectators sensational blunders which were immediately broadcast country-wide by radio and press. Now, according to Mr. "Possum" Pixlee's plan, on doning their street clothes, with the harrowing details still all too fresh in their minds, they would have to sit down and record on paper the story of their misfortunes for their own future edification...