Word: callings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Stimson did not have to call an assistant to tell him who Barlow was. Only too 'familiar was he with the long-standing controversies between Joseph E. Barlow, 67, U. S. citizen, 30 years a resident of Havana, and the Cuban Government. Only too well did he know that Mr. Barlow has been pressing a nine-million-dollar claim which has caused more alarums and excursions at the State Department than have the affairs of any other U. S. investor abroad. Mr. Barlow laid claim to 32 city blocks in the heart of Havana taken from...
...President instructed Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown to discover the causes of, to devise remedies for, these deficits (TIME, July 22). An audit of the scrambled costs of maintaining the different classes of postal service is now in progress. Last week Postmaster General Brown prepared to call into an October conference the big users of first-class mail, particularly direct-mail advertisers. Quickly spread the firm belief that the Department would recommend as a deficit-extinguisher an increase in first-class postage from 2? to 2½ or 3?. Argument for the increase: Citizens pay the deficit anyway, either...
...York, New Haven & Hartford (Exception: after the "last call" on the Merchant's Limited...
...Hague by Britain's stubborn, ungracious Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden (see col. 2). The French especially were furious. Therefore, on his way to Geneva, last week, astute Scot MacDonald stopped off at Paris with his apple-cheeked daughter Ishbel, to pay a tactful, friendly little call on French Prime Minister Aristide Briand, just back from three weeks of desperate haggling with Chancellor Snowden at The Hague...
Asked point blank if the "entente cordiale" between Britain and France had been weakened by what Frenchmen call "The Snowden Incident," Scot MacDonald answered quick and short: "That is utterly absurd!" On reaching Geneva, he let it be known that he had in pocket an important declaration concerning world peace. At British delegation headquarters it was hinted that the prime minister would make at least a partial announcement of progress made thus far in his almost daily parleys' anent naval reduction with President Hoover's forthright, hubble-bubbling Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (TIME, June...