Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall impetuous Teuton held the Reparations stage in Paris all last week. Speaking for Germany in gruff, rasping English, he seemed to epitomize the Nietzschean commandment, " Behard!" As a matter of fact anyone who has been spoken to for five minutes by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank, and, today, Chairman of the German Delegation to the Second Dawes Committee in Paris (TIME, Feb 11), knows that the man is as drastically metallic as his pistol-shot name-Schacht...
What looms ahead? Last week as Mr. Morgan sat on the Second Dawes Committee, he was undoubtedly pondering a fiscal operation beside which the half-billion-dollar loan to France and England would seem picayune. This project is spoken of as "Commercializing" the German reparations debt. By this is meant (TIME, Oct. 29) that long term "reparations bonds" may be issued against the resources of the German State, sold to the public, and the money used to pay off at once Germany's debt to the Powers...
...Having spoken, the tall cadaverous Viceroy stepped into his sumptuous private car and sped back to New Delhi, the glistening white and red sandstone capital of British India. There Lord Irwin busied himself in arranging a counter demonstration against Independence. Naturally it was to the Maharajas, the princes of India, many of whom are supported on their petty thrones by British might, that the Viceroy turned. Presently no less than 40 of these resplendent potentates addressed, to the Chamber of Princes in New Delhi, most powerful pronouncements against what several of them called "the menace of independence." Each little Raja...
...French-Canadians, he gave money in 1925 for a school fund which was to be distributed by the Rt. Rev. William A. Hickey, Bishop of the Diocese of Providence. Attorney Daignault and many another donor wanted strictly French-speaking schools. In the schools that Bishop Hickey built, English was spoken, though French was taught. Attorney Daignault and a few of his comrades were so vexed that they determined to sue Bishop Hickey for misuse of their good money...
Does the Harvard Lampoon hit too hard, or are academic communities abnormally thin-skinned? At royal courts the function of the king's fool was to rush in where statesmen feared to tread. It was recognized as one needful to the safety of monarchy itself. The true word spoken in jest might be the salvation of the throne. Shall opinion in a modern university be more autocratic than monarchy, and revoke the jester's license...