Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...renewal of agitation concerning the French war debt to America indicates the necessity of a solution of this portentious unknown in the international equation. Mr. Keynes, in the most recent New Republic, outlines the French view. America sacrificed her money, as France sacrificed her blood and sinew, to attain a common result. The cash and goods advanced were called a loan in order to encourage economical spending, but in the first flush of victory they should have been generously cancelled. The British view is that France should follow England's example in arranging the steps leading to ultimate payment...
...play is a pleasant little trifle, dealing easily with the simple lives of the farm folk of Devonshire, to whom habit complexes and six expressions are charmingly unknown. The difficulty of finding enough American actors and actresses qualified to handle the Devonshire dialect, even with modifications, is evident in spots throughout the performance, but in general the acting of the cast is finished and convincing. Walter Edwin, as "Churdles Ash", the hired man, is particularly to be praised, even though Mr. Phillpotts has cast his character in a form which makes it impossible for him to converse save in epigrams...
...machinery of government is often halted while the chief executive of the State lays a corner stone; but it is very seldom that a busy governor can spare ten minutes of the people's time to write a personal letter of encouragement to a small and unknown invalid. That is what Governor Fuller has done, however, and it is safe to say that little Eddie O'Neil of Attleboro will treasure till his dying hour the card and note that reached him on his fifth birthday...
Meagre enough, these items, bearing as they do upon that awkward, austere, magical name whose connotation is an unquotable sum and an unknown personality. Yet, out of such flying hints, has grown the outline of a character, blurred at first, like a face vaguely limned in charcoal scratches, clarified little by little with inkier facts, until the quality and temper of the man have come to stand out distinct, significant...
...fact that his personality has been largely unknown, that his wealth abashes ciphers, that makes him significant. There is no significance in mystery. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is significant because he has twisted a parable, and because he has made a signally novel application of an ancient...