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...comment of the press on the message was generally favorable from the President's standpoint. Even in Democratic newspapers the adjective most frequently applied was "unequivocal." There were several outstanding exceptions, however...
...magnates (Herren Stinnes, Thyssen, Klöcckner, Fickler, Rausch, Hubert) for control of factories and mines, and thus secure reparations to cover the cost of reconstruction in the devastated areas. These negotiations, however, fell through principally because Chancellor Stresemann, exercising pressure upon the industrialists, declined to depart from his standpoint that the Ruhr occupation is illegal and that whatever the French have seized from that territory must be placed to the credit of reparations- as there could be no question of paying France and Belgium for an illegal occupation. When the Chancellor's letter was shown to Colonel Georges...
...chosen, wisely, to attack his problem from the philosophical standpoint, not, you understand, of abstract, empyrean, philosophy, but of that system and ordering of daily life that is in truth the most immediate concern of the more human letters--the Litterae Humaniores of the Scots Universities. "The Achievement of Greece" is, in fact, a study in the humanities. We cannot ask every man to be a Leonardo da Vinci...
...charming Mozart quartet, like that of Wednesday evening makes an excellent beginning--from the listener's standpoint. For the players it is not easy to "Warm up" on Mozart, and there is no more exacting test than the playing of a such a work. The parts stand out always crystal-clear, and there is no room for the least carelessness. To this test the Londoners subjected themselves, and emerged triumphant as a finished ensemble of skilled musicians...
...delivered a lecture on "British and American Labor--A Comparison," --which was radical from the capitalistic standpoint,--in so quiet and sane a manner that he could not possibly be termed an agitator and scarcely a propagandist...