Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chairman of the Board to be elected by the Governors for a term of several years, indefinitely renewable. Expectations at Baden-Baden were that a U. S. citizen would be elected Chairman, might find the office a lifetime...
...last week as to the city in which the B. I. S. shall be set up. The British continued to clamor for London, the Latins remained violently opposed. The delegates were also stumped to find an adequate authority for setting up the B. I. S. at all. Perhaps it would require a multilateral treaty among all the Powers concerned, and that would mean finding a weasel way around the expected unwillingness of the U. S. to sign. Questions involving the minor powers and personnel of the B. I. S. proved additional stumpers. Even hustling, driving Chairman Jackson Eli Reynolds opined...
...main address Orator MacDonald touched on a novel topic vital to U. S. citizens: "Freedom of the Seas." If there should be another War would the British Navy again wield the weapon of Blockade? Weaseling well, he answered: "You have signed a pact of peace. And when I say you I mean Canada. . . . We have done the same, France has done the same, Italy has done the same and the United States has done the same! ... If there is to be no war there is to be no blockade. What is the use of bothering ourselves and wasting our time...
Other Ottawa keynotes: He assured the Dominions that they would all be represented at the Five Power Naval Parley in London next January (TIME, Oct. 21). He rejoiced that during the week Japan, Italy and France had joined the U. S. in accepting invitations to the parley unconditionally. He promised on returning to London to communicate soon with Tokyo, Paris and Rome "in the same free and open way" as with President Hoover...
...sound of his horn woke me from my bed And the cry of his hounds, which he oft times led Peel's 'View Haloo!' would awaken the dead Or the fox from his lair in the morning. -CUMBERLAND HUNTING SONG In England and Virginia, Ireland and Ohio-wherever British or U. S. horsemen gather, people remembered that song last week, for cub hunting was over, formal fox hunting was beginning. Bank presidents set their alarm clocks for 5:30 a. m. Valets laid out scarlet coats and white breeches. Stalwart young women wore derby hats at dawn...