Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Special Disarmament Committee will in itself constitute an international conference of the first magnitude, and invitations were accordingly despatched to the U. S., Germany and Russia, as the chief nonLeague states, requesting them to send representatives to this important preliminary gathering...
...agenda of the proposed Special Disarmament Committee was embodied by M. Benes of Czechoslovakia into a long and complicated technical program, which provides that the following factors bearing on disarmament shall be considered...
...Invisible Armaments": the population, geographical situation, industrial strength and war mobilizing power of the nations. Under this head special attention will be given to the possession by a nation of large fleets of commercial aircraft or chemical factories instantly convertible to war purposes...
...confusion of highly paid special correspondents, the Chinese situation last week resisted all efforts at disentanglement. Super-Tuchun Chang, who has lorded it for several years in Manchuria, was evidently hard pressed by his revolted subordinate, General Küo (TIME, Dec. 7). But opinions differed as to whether he was making a last stand near Mukden, his capital, or had fled to Japan accompanied by his Occidental adviser, "General" Frank Sutton, famed British adventurer (TIME...
...group of earnest business men met last week in an upholstered committee room in the Woolworth Building. They were members of the Manhattan Merchants' Association-a Special Committee on the Simplification of the Calendar. They discussed the various inconveniences which the world has been compelled to put up with since the days of Julius Caesar because of the clumsy time-divisions with which that dictator encumbered civilization...