Word: v
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vexed, Chairman Thomas V. O'Connor, of the Shipping Board, denounced this as Rotterdamaging "foreign' propaganda" put forth (he said) for ulterior purposes in a foreign rate war. Even when the sales are effected-probably months hence-the Shipping Board will not at once dissolve. The Shipping Board's ultimate purpose is to build up U. S. shipping. Bids of every form must carry certain guarantees of performance by the purchasers. Any one buying the Palmetto Line, for example, must guarantee 24 round voyages per annum between South Atlantic ports and Continental Europe for five years...
...intimation was allowed to escape with contented British smugness that Colonel Lawrence, whose Arab friends have created him a Prince of Mecca, is now using his unique influence to combat the Pan-Asiatic schemes of the Amir of Afghanistan-who recently toured Europe, was the guest of George V (TIME, March 26, April...
...Northumberland?". . . "Who's for Rothermere?" Thus the cries, last fortnight, of partisans of two potent peers, goliaths of British journalism, engaged in a battle to the death. It was Northumberland v. Rothermere, 8th Duke v. ist Viscount, a Percy v. a Harmsworth, the ultraconservative London Morning Post v. the mighty Daily Mail. For battlefield they had unstinted columns of the two papers; for ammunition they used massed figures, of circulation, of advertising, of anything. Pained at the Daily Mail's persistent claims to a circulation of close to 2,000,000, Northumberland opened the war. With Ducal dignity...