Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dispute were to arise with one of the Caribbean republics of such proportions as to demand the intervention of Britain as the head of the Commonwealth of Nations, would the United States step in and assert her sole right to settle it? This was what she did in the Venezuelan matter.* In the future, Canada might have a very great interest in the solution. Foreign policy is rapidly becoming an affair not of Britain alone, but of the Britannic Commonwealth...
...advocate) appears to point out the weaknesses of the case, which must be proved in each of the three particulars, when a decree de tuto is issued. All is then ready for the ceremony of beatification-raising the candidate from the rank of Venerable to Blessed, a step to canonization. This last always takes place in the basilica of St. Peter's and is one of the most important ecclesiastical functions of the Pope...
...American theatre equal in prestige to the Comedie Francaise is the next step in the development of the stage here." Miss Madge Kennedy, star of the stage and screen, declared in a recent interview...
...grey-haired Field Marshal and the grey-haired Chancellor. Monarchist roars broke out on all sides, Monarchist flags were waved in seeming mockery of the black, red and gold emblem of the Republic fluttering from the Presidential car. At the Chancellery, the Field Marshal was forced to step out on to the balcony to acknowledge an ear-splitting ovation. Thus did Herr von Hindenburg enter Berlin for his Presidential inauguration...
...pointed and adequate retort. Already over ?1,000,000 in gold has been exported from England since assumption of the gold standard, with more to follow in all probability. The British are hoping that the rediscount rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York may be reduced -a step which will decrease the U. S. tendency to draw gold from England. In any case, it is not unlikely that 1925 will see a further advance in the rate of the Bank of England, designed to check gold exports. Such an eventuality may not occur, however, until the critical autumn...