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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Ford steamed home from their vacation in England (TIME, April 16, et seq.) aboard the Majestic, upon which they were again listed under the alias of "Mr. & Mrs. John Robinson." Meanwhile at Para, Brazil, the newspaper Folha de Norte published alleged revelations of the text of a rubber plantation agreement signed by the Ford interests and the State of Para. The agreement, denounced as a "scandalous document," was declared to grant Mr. Ford "unlimited permission to engage in commerce, industry, banking, navigation, and the hiring of contract labor . . . unrestricted by government control" throughout a vast tract of land...
Last week he announced as his reason for resigning that he needs time to complete his great history of arbitration, a work in 75 volumes upon the preparation of which he has already labored for 42 years. Insofar as possible, Judge Moore proposes to include the text of every award, decision and opinion rendered since early Grecian times by those empowered to render an international judgment. Each text will be reproduced in the original language, with an English translation added, where necessary...
That France will have a great deal to say in defense of her position was made clear, last week, when Foreign Minister Briand announced that he too will shortly submit a tentative multilateral treaty text to the Powers concerned. Should the fashion for drafting and bandying such texts spread to a third power, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, the ensuing negotiations may well become a diplomatic cross word puzzle, titanic and inextricable. In an effort to scotch such confusion, Secretary Kellogg said in all his notes, last week...
...substantiate the thunderbolt thus hurled by Prime Minister Tanaka, the Ministry of Justice next blazoned a propaganda leaflet allegedly seized during one of the police raids. Text...
...American Architecture" is, in the first place, not a text-book for architectural school students. Rather is it a history and critique of architecture. The problems discussed are those which would interest the student of art, perhaps the architect, certainly not the contractor. The questions discussed are matters of taste, with but few blue-prints. In brief, the book is written for the layman...