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Churchill

WINSTON LEONARD, Colonial Secretary in the cabinet of Lloyd George to 1922. He supported Lloyd George in the general election of November, 1922, and was defeated in his contest for re-election to Parliament.

Clarke

JOHN HESSIN, resigned from the Supreme Court September, 1922, to devote himself to the advancement of American participation in the League of Nations.

Crowder

ENOCH HERBERT, returned to Cuba in 1921 as the personal representative of President Harding. He assisted in the drafting of a new legislative code for the island and was also successful in straightening out Cuba's finances. On February 9, 1923, he was nominated by President Harding to be American ambassador to Cuba.

Culberson

CHARLES ALLEN, defeated for renomination to the U. S, Senate, 1922.

Curzon

EARL, continued in the office of Foreign Secretary in the cabinet of Bonar Law, 1922. In the Near Eastern Conference at Lausanne in this year, he was the leading spokesman of the Allied Powers against the Turkish Nationalists.

Capacity

ELECTRICAL, the abil- 1,300 up electrical energy. The storing up 3,478 is accomplished by condensers, which 1,124 70 are used extensively in telegraph, telephone, and radio practice. The unit of 1,948 phone, and radio practice. The unit of 614 the millionth part of which is known as 679 the millionth part of which is known as

Capitulations

a term applied to 1,651 4,218 302 2,943

Chordata

a term now commonly employed in place of the older term Vertebrata, to designate the zoological phylum or group of which the true vertebrates form only one subdivision. (See VERTEBRATA, Vol. X.)

Cnossus or Knossos

an ancient city of Crete and the probable capital of the semi-legendary ruler Minos, whose palace, including the famous Labyrinth COAL COMMISSION of the Minotaur, has been uncovered by the British archæologist Sir Arthur Evans. A well-advanced civilization is exhibited by the ruins, dating back probably to 3500 B. C. COAL FACT-FINDING COMMIS- SION. (See UNITED STATES, 1922-23.)

Coal Strike

1922. (See UNITED STATES, 1922-23.)

Cocos Islands

Indian Ocean. (See KEELING ISLANDS, Vol. V.)