Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grounds for a great lawn party on the afternoon of the notification. Chefs worked over the menu for a buffet luncheon for 300 G. 0. Partisans. Cleaners furbished up the D. A. R.'s Constitution Memorial Hall where the evening ceremonials would occur. Calvin Coolidge declined an invitation to attend on the curious ground that it was "the nominee's party...
...Depression. ... I am not in favor of readjusting or cancelling the debt until and unless these War problems-Reparations, War guilt, armaments-are finally settled. "We are going to have a monetary conference but we will not discuss Reparations and Debts. How would you like to attend a play of Hamlet, with Hamlet left...
...party the delegates did not attend was the dedication, week before the conference opened, of a 3,000-acre International Peace Garden in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota and Manitoba. The Peace Garden is at the centre of the U. S.-Canada border, 32 mi. northeast of Bottineau, N. Dak. Half of it is in the U. S., half in Canada. President Hoover and Governor General Lord Bessborough sent greetings. Some 50,000 people raised their hands, solemnly swore: "To God in His Glory, we two nations dedicate this garden, and pledge ourselves that as long as men shall...
...figure of American Madness (Columbia) is a noble money lender. He regards honor as an asset more valuable than stocks or bonds and his idealistic viewpoint only indirectly damages his financial standing. Devoted to the interests of his depositors, he breaks an engagement with his wife (Kay Johnson) to attend to a business deal in Philadelphia. This enables her to visit the apartment of his head cashier (Gavin Gordon), who has been dipping his fingers in the till...
Since the first week in June it has been known that the Lausanne Conference on Reparations (which the U. S. did not attend) would be followed by another Conference, probably at London, to discuss international money and trade problems, which the U. S. would attend. U. S. opinion decided almost immediately that this later Conference would be a united attempt on the part of Europe to force revision or cancellation of War Debts. On May 31 Secretary Stimson announced that the U. S. would attend no parley which discussed reparations, debts, or specific tariff rates. Last week British Charge...