Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Lowell, Secretary of State Hughes LL.D. '10, Secretary of Commerce Hoover LL.D. '17, former Secretary of State Elihu Root LL.D. '07, President John Grier Hibben LL.D. '17 of Princeton University, President Nicholas Murray Butler LL.D. '09 of Columbia University, Bishop William Lawrence '71 of Massachusetts, former Ambassador to Turkey Oscar S. Straus, Mr. William Allen White, and former Attorney General George W. Wickersham...
Bonar Law's offer to release France from her debts is the first sign of a clearing in the much muddled "general European condition." Oil stains from the quarrel about Turkish concessions, France's obstinacy in regard to the German reparations, the secret connivings between Turkey and the unofficial Russian delegates, the loud shouting by Ismet Pasha for Thrace and the abandonment of the Capitulations, and Lord Curzon's John Bull-headed inflexibility as regards the Bosphorus have all contributed to stirring up the pool at Lausanne until it has become almost impossible to see the bottom...
...decided fall from per present demand. England is tired watching the mark coast downhill; she wants to establish trade again with Germany under conditions more certain and less fluctuating and sporadic than they are now. Facing dangerous possibilities of the complete diplomatic face-about in Black Sea affairs,--Turkey's alliance with the arch enemy Russia,--England finds that her friendship with France needs a touch of cement to cover over the cracks left by Lloyd-George recent experiments in Asia Minor...
...planets are headed in a straight line for this very crossroads of the universe, nobody seems much concerned. Partly through disbelief in the science of astronomy itself and partly through the urgency of things like the shortage of coal; the inclement weather, or diplomatic tussles with Turkey, people look askance, saying: "No matter, the scientists are always talking...
...civilized world outside of Greece, they regarded their execution as a great in-justice. They had plotted to precipitate Greece in the Great War on the side of the Turks and the Germans. They had brought about Constantine's return and had so managed the war against Turkey that the Greek armies suffered a complete collapse. But other Greek armies have collapsed, ever since the day when Lord Byron failed in his attempt to help restore to them the glory which was theirs. Were not these men victims sacrificed by the people at the altar of fanaticism? This was their...