Word: whose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lady Astor: Whose lands...
Tardieu will himself head the French Delegation at London, with his great and famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand in second place, and Minister of Marine Georges Leygues, whose whiskers seem as wide as the seas themselves, in third. Though M. Briand is nothing if not conciliatory, he shares with M. Tardieu and most Frenchmen a shrewd wish to link the U. S. in disarmament with the League...
...applecart, set about picking up the apples. Within 24 hours he announced that he (i.e., the Reichsbank) would supply the needed cash. The political neck of Optimist Hilferding seemed saved and the whole affair might have passed off as a teapot-tempest, except for the famed Berliner Tageblatt whose editor announced that he possessed the inside story, upset the apples again...
...Tageblatt intimated that should Dillon, Read beat their "rivals" to the Stock Exchange with an $100,000,000 German loan, subsequent Morgan pickings from Reparations Bonds might verge upon the loan. According to the "dope" Dr. Schacht was persuaded to obstruct the loan by Seymour Parker Gilbert, whose post as Agent General of Reparations will automatically be abolished when the Young Plan comes into effect. For years Germans have been hearing that Mr. Gilbert will then become a Morgan partner...
...time, the armies of war lords opposed to his regime (TIME, Oct. 14, et seq). Whewed he: "The recent upheaval against our Government was the greatest yet experienced. Our fate hung by a single hair. What was this hair? The loyalty and bravery of our officers and men, whose courage never faltered! Again they met the flood and carried us to firm ground." (Floods are the most frequent catastrophe in China, others scarcely less frequent being droughts and plagues...