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Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson last week frowned over this cablegram from Havana...
...Vexed, used to her own way, Mrs. Poindexter had her husband complain to President Augusto B. Leguia of Peru. Eager to please, President Leguia ordered Senor Gonzalez-Prada to return Cornelius to the Poindexters. Senor Gonzalez-Prada thereupon, last week, cabled his resignation, saying: "The orders contained in your cablegram are unjust and I shall not carry them out." He suspected the Cornelius episode had been used as an excuse to discomfit him. Washington credited Mrs. Poindexter, famed for her knowledge of the gossip of officialdom, with having this time created an Incident herself...
...President Hoover, said reports, had asked Porto Ricans how they would like Col. Roosevelt. . . . Last fortnight a cable from Hong Kong to Manhattan said: GREAT LUCK SHOT GIANT PANDA JOINTLY STOP THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A panda, also called wah, is a large dimwitted Asiatic raccoon. The "jointly" in the Roosevelt cablegram referred to the fact that the sender is accompanied by his able brother, Kermit Roosevelt...
...what looked like a hearty afterthought, Vice President Dawes and eight members of Congress scribbled their names last week upon a cablegram to the Nobel Committee, Norwegian Storting, Oslo. The cablers declared that they, "duly qualified for making recommendations," did recommend U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg for the Nobel Peace Prize. His and M. Briand's Multilateral Peace Treaty was advanced in his favor...
...time-limit for recommendation was Feb. i, hence the cablegram. Evidently, no one had known just how to go about recommending a Nobel candidate-or perhaps no one had taken literally the suggestion, which issued from a vague source some weeks ago, that Mr. Kellogg ought to be recommended. But memories and elbows were jogged just in time. The fact was discovered that members of the Interparliamentary Union, members of Congress and previous Nobel prize men are "duly qualified" for recommending. And off to Oslo went the prayer of, besides Mr. Dawes, the following: Speaker Longworth, Senators Shipstead and Schall...