Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diplomatic Contribution. Having dozed or pondered while the foreign-devil-policeman spoke, slant-eyed delegates awoke to attention when Dr. Chao-Hsin Chu, Chinese Minister to Italy, made his contribution to the proceedings: "You insult my government and I am not afraid to insult yours...
...Zaghlul spoke for 90 minutes. He might have conveyed his meaning in a sentence. The Wafd, he declared, must go outside its ranks to find a premier acceptable to Baron Lloyd. He, Zaghlul, proposed that they support former Premier Adli Pasha Yeghen, leader of the Liberal party, whom Lord Lloyd had consented to tolerate as Premier. The Cabinet of Ziwar Pasha thereupon resigned, and the Sultan summoned Adli Pasha to form a new government...
...Police Emmerich von Nadossy of Budapest and Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz, stood up for sentence the courtroom became a pandemonium of sobs, groans and cries. Momentarily the representatives of the Bank of France, the civil plaintiff, experienced a qualm lest their instant lynching impended. Then Chief von Nadossy spoke...
...Then spoke Signor Gatti. He drew up a new contract for Assistant General Manager Edward Ziegler, to run for as long a time as his own. He announced eleven new artists for next season?nine singers a conductor and a dancer...
Leader Clarence Macartney fiercely attacked it because it did not specifically condemn the New York Presbytery for having licensed a preacher who doubted the virgin birth. Thereupon, his brother, Rev. Albert Macartney, spoke up: "The only trouble with him [Clarence] is that he is not married. If Clarence would only get married there would be more harmony in the church and he would not have so much time to worry over other people's theology...