Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understood that Mr. Richard Washburn Child, American Ambassador in Rome, will be present at Lausanne when the conference is resumed; it has even been stated that he will be there primarily to protect the Chester claims. This, however, lacks confirmation. One thing is certain, Turkey is trying to force a wedge, in the shape of America, between herself and the Allies. It is equally evident that oil will come more to the front in the next, and according to the Turks the final, session of the peace conference at Lausanne...
Officials of the University declined to comment on the vote, but it is understood that the decision means that men who would not live and eat toegther with negroes except under compulsion, will be allowed by the Dean of the College to live in some other building of the Freshman group...
...important factor has to be considered. Former President Wilson's letter to Governor Sweet is generally understood to indicate his return to active political life and his influence may be decisive. No one believes that he would approve the nomination of Ford, or even Bryan. His "hope" that a Progressive Democrat would be chosen to fill the vacant seat from Colorado may be a hit at the conservative Underwood. Possibly he means to support his son-in-law, whom he allowed to perish miserably at San Francisco when a turn of his thumb might have made him President McAdoo, after...
...April 9 Princess Yolanda, eldest daughter of King Vittorio Emannele III and Queen Elena, will be married to the man of her choice- Count Calvi di Bergolo. Despite the expressed wish of the Princess that no presents be sent, it is understood that foreign diplomats have made plans for a wedding gift. On April 7 the King and Queen will hold a reception at the Palace for the Diplomatic Corps, who will thus be given an opportunity of presenting the felicitations of their respective Governments to the Princess and her fiancé. The next evening another large reception will...
...Thomas' Academy - Pig Iron - Dartmouth and Yale The London Times sees in the Carnegie report a sign of the awakening of the United States to its educational shortcomings, as well as an admission of the existence of those shortcomings. "The state of American education has never been fully understood in this country. There is, on the one hand, a vague belief in its efficiency which has been encouraged by the reports of English educationalists who have been welcomed in the United States and shown many admirable schools which were not perhaps fair samples of the whole system. These visits...