Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last spring Elihu Root, grey Elder Statesman of U. S. diplomacy, good friend of Herbert Hoover, went to Geneva?quite unofficially?and began with foreign diplomats to draw up another set of reservations which would suit both them and the U.S. Last week more than 40 nations had approved the Root formula (see p. 26). So Henry Lewis Stimson, President Hoover's Secretary of State, announced that he had "carefully examined" the new reservations and "satisfied" himself that they would protect...
...matter-of-fact fashion the editor of Ceske Slovo announced that he could now tell what took place in Belgrade last spring at the annual and, as usual, deathly secret conference of "Little Entente" statesmen...
Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd and his mates in Little America, Antarctica, saw the sun again as southern hemisphere spring approached. Commander Byrd hoisted the U. S. flag?also British and Norwegian flags?for the first time since April and said: "This is a big day for us, because of the return of the sun, and a bigger day because it is Larry's [Laurence McKinley Gould, second-in-command] birthday." Wrote Russell Owens, official correspondent (New York Times]: "The ice cliffs sparkled like gigantic mirrors winking back a message of welcome to the sun as if there was some secret...
...Bank of Minneapolis which formed the $75,000,000 Northwest Bank Corp. and began picking up banks in the vicinity. Among its attempted acquisitions was First National Bank of Minneapolis. First National Bank of St. Paul, not intending to be left in the cold, started its own chain last spring, united 17 banks under one holding company. Last week's union swallowed up the First National of St. Paul's first effort, added 20 more banks, united all in a holding company headed jointly by the First Nationals of the two cities...
...Earlier performances of The Apple Cart were given in Polish at Warsaw last spring...