Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington. Chinese Minister to the U. S. Alfred Sze presented a note to Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg asking that foreign treaties be revised. Conversations were continued for some time, but no statement was made. It was understood that Mr. Kellogg had told the Chinese Minister that the U. S. would act only with the other Powers...
William Randolph Hearst bought another. This time not a newspaper. It is Town and Country, an old, old denizen of the publishing field, founded in 1846. Mr. Hearst's own newspapers carried the announcement that "it is understood that the value of the magazine was held at close to $1,000,000," and added naively...
...villages. It was a task the very nature of which must take generations to accomplish. But he had lived in an epoch when the East was striving in an economic sense to join with the West on equal terms. Vaguely, dimly, confusedly, the masses who had heard of Swaraj understood what the passing of the great leader signified. And if they were equally bewildered at the presence of numerous sahibs at the funeral, centuries of submission to authority had taught them to admire its quality...
...asbestos industry. It has been particularly necessary for the managers of the new merger to come to agreement with certain prominent Canadian-U. S. firms which will not come into the consolidation and where business volume and size make them an important factor in the business. It is understood that with the "Big Three" of these "independent companies-Johns-Manville, Keasbey & Mattison and Philip Carey & Co.-arrangements have been made to prevent their products interfering with a central leadership and control of the asbestos market aimed at by the new consolidation...
...Philadelphia College of Ospathy represented by Carl, Fischer, intercollegiate Champion in 1923. Fuller Sherman, Albert Gillis and Henry Orbst; Butler University of Indianapolis represented by Julius Sagalowsky, former Junior and boy champion of the Middle West and Irving Kurzrock, Stanford University of California is understood to be sending on Cranston man, former Municipal singles and present holder with partner of the Muncipal National Doubles Championship...