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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stimson's Studies. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson completed a three-week "instruction course" which qualified him as a naval expert for the London conference. His teachers, admirals of the Navy's General Board, called one after another at his office to give lessons in naval equipment, strategy, statistics. It was announced that as a lover of peace, not as a pacifist, would Statesman Stimson lead the U. S. delegation to London...
...Highly complimented" felt Senator Borah last week to learn that his State, following the example of Wyoming which named its highest peak after its longtime Senator Francis Emroy Warren (TIME, July 1), was naming its highest spot Mount Borah. The Idaho Geographic Board, with the Senator's permission, forwarded the mountain's new name to the U. S. Geographic Board in Washington for inscription on all future maps...
Numerous other diversions were provided. Oldtime fiddlers had a contest, rasped out "Money Musk," "Soldier's Joy," "Leather Breeches." At the live stock and horse show blue ribbons went to Best Steer Lothian Count IV, to Best Mare Margot. Samuel McKelvie Sr.. father of the Federal Farm Board's Samuel Roy McKelvie, won prizes on his Poland China hogs. Flyers from four States competed in an air derby. Governor Weaver, presented with a Diamond Jubilee plaque, said: "Nebraska has no mines of gold or silver or precious stones, but ... a soil that will last forever . . . salubrious climate...
Causes of this undermining were: 1) Warnings from the Federal Reserve Board and other prophets of disaster?warnings which, scoffed at when given, nevertheless filled the Market with a conviction of sin. 2) A period of almost two months (since the Babson Break early in September) in which it had taken strychnine-injections to push quotations ahead. The September slump (currently almost ignored in favor of the peculiar theory that the Market crashed without warning) was of tremendous importance in its indication that a Market which could survive only by constant rises had reached the limits of its climb...
...weeks ago George Hannauer, late President of the Boston & Maine, died of heart failure while watching the Yale-Dartmouth game. Last week the B. & M. elected Board Chairman Thomas Nelson Perkins, Harvard Fellow, as acting President. Mr. Perkins has been an outstanding lawyer in Massachusetts for some 35 years. He was the first American member of the Reparations Commission, and in the Reparations Conference last spring he was alternate to Owen D. Young. That he is a Boston aristocrat does not weigh too heavily on his shoulders. He is noted for his democracy and humor...