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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Excitement is risky for octogenarians, and so last week in Geneva, Switzerland, august elder U.S. Statesman Elihu Root, 84, was kept in bed for two whole days by his vigilant and cheery nurse, Miss Emily Stewart. As the personal representative of President Herbert Hoover, Elder Statesman Root had just scored an exciting triumph. After wrestling with the League of Nations committee on the World Court Protocol for 14 days−with a two-hour nap at his hotel every afternoon−he has achieved acceptance of a formula under which the U.S. Senate is expected at last to ratify...
...Crown. With two gestures of convincing sincerity Edward of Wales did much to forestall that. The first gesture was his report on the unemployment situation, which he denounced in heartfelt fashion as "A ghastly mess! Worse than I would ever have believed!" His second gesture was to sell his whole string of horses, renounce the Royal sport of foxhunting, and settle down to the business of the Crown...
...teaches school instead, proved a most formidable antagonist, took the seat from Lord Scone by nearly 7,000 majority. Connoisseurs observed that of the ten female M.P.'s the only one possessed of both youth and beauty is now the Right Honorable Jenny Lee. As a whole the results of last week's five by-elections were considered, when viewed in the light of local conditions, a great blow to the Conservatives, a good showing for Labor and a brilliant one for the Liberals. Without the yardstick of a knowledge of local conditions the result might seem quite...
...Most of the great leaders and reformers who left an impress upon their own and subsequent generations were not noted for their sense of humor. Moses, Mahomet and Jesus . . . are outstanding examples. The great figures in public life today are, on the whole, very serious-minded...
...there is to be, the telegraph companies now appear to have the whip hand. R.C.A. radio circuits terminate at New York on the East Coast and San Francisco on the West Coast. Blank of its stations is the whole interior. Not only can it transmit no domestic messages, but all messages from the interior for radio transmission abroad must be relayed to the coast over Western Union wires. Tentative, temporary are R.C.A.'s "agree ments" with these companies. Therefore, to escape this bondage, R.C.A. Communications has applied to the Federal Radio Commission for 67 wave lengths to be used...