Word: sovereigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the deft and dapper Caillaux crossed the ocean to settle for France, his business-like demeanor promised success. With the reign of common sense here prevailing, it almost seemed as if France's Phoenix were feigning America's go-get-it-iveness the better to suit its sovereign power. But after each side had laid a corner-stone, one at the North Pole and the other at the South, the structure collapsed at the Equator and floated blithely away to the Gold Coast...
...fund, but upon a most elegant double-page spread in the New York Times last week, advertising the latest, the very last thing in Florida realty- "the Floranada Club." An organization entitled the American-British Improvement Corporation, with a coat of arms showing eagle and lion rampant beside the sovereign seal of Florida, proclaimed "a Biarritz in the building . . . small, smart, exquisite . . . whose founders read like a page from the social register." A tract of 3,600 acres midway between Palm Beach and Miami was in hand. There was ocean frontage with the Gulf Stream only 3 miles offshore. There...
...smaller nations which have overthrown monarchical rule and followed the example of Western civilization in adopting more or less democratic forms of government begin to be considered thorns in the sides of their greater sister nations. Now the big powers of Europe seem desirous of creating federations of small sovereign nations...
...League, as it stands, consists of sovereign powers. None of these have agreed to cede the central unit the authority it must have ti sit in judgment over their disputes. All, without exception, wish to conserve their respective armaments, they wish to submit questions of "grave significance" arising between small powers, but they do not think that the combined efforts of France and Spain to crush the Riffians, who are fighting for their liberties, deserve the attention of the League. They say Morocco is not a member of the League. Well, what of France? Is she not a member...
...months Mexican Nationalist Representatives and Senators have been swelling out their chests in Parliament and announcing to the world in general that Mexico is a Sovereign State and can make what laws she pleases. They added that they were at work upon certain laws which would displease most foreigners a great deal. At Washington, President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg have maintained a portentous silence. The present Mexican regime was recognized a short time after the death of President Harding only after a U.S.-Mexican Commission had arrived at the distinct understanding that there would be no enforcement of the fourth...