Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶As usual, David Lloyd George covered the trail of his devious policy with an oration about nothing in particular but of lofty moral tone. At the mere mention of Disarmament, the little Welsh lawyer leaped up to cry: "President Herbert Hoover is the only world statesman of today who...
This year budget punctuality is not imperative. France is vastly prosperous. Surplus tax collections have been piling up over estimates month after month. Therefore, argued many a Deputy last week, why not go back to the good old pre-Poincaré system? In those days the budget debate was a...
Whatever the Royal cortège lacked in grandeur was more than made up by pomp displayed by the Supreme Pontiff. At the technical frontier of the minuscule Vatican State the eight motor cars stopped. There, brilliant in the warm December sunshine stood Commendatore Serafini, Governor of Vatican City; Prince...
Later, when Ambassador Gibson offered to the world in the name of President Hoover and Secretary Stimson what seemed to Mrs. Litvinov basically her husband's plan, she made up her mind that "contemptible" was the right adjective, "bounder" the right noun.
Unfriendly Act? As was later admitted to Washington correspondents, the Stimson notes were drafted when their author did not know whether to believe conflicting reports that China and Russia were even then patching up their differences at a peace parley near Vladivostok. Other reports convinced Mr. Stimson that Soviet planes...