Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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If Mr. Gibson was downcast, his pleasant homely face, with its wide humorous mouth succeeded in diplomatically concealing his feelings. He has been attending arms conferences for the last four years. First it was the 1925 "Traffic-in-Arms" conference, then the 1926-27 preparatory arms commission and finally the...
Vengeance to Foch. "However highly President von Hindenburg may esteem Foch as a military man, the German people simply would not understand why he should pay tribute to the man who at Compiegne so deeply humiliated the German Armistice Commission. It is not his qualities of a soldier that we...
Thus last week the Private Secretary of Old Paul von Hindenburg explained to correspondents why Der Alte Feldmarschall sent only the frostiest expression of official regret through German Ambassador at Paris, Dr. Leopold von Hoesch. Meanwhile German news organs indignantly recalled how Victor Foch had "rubbed it in." Facts are...
Technique of blood transfusion has enabled many an individual to help a sick or injured friend. It has also created a traffic in blood. Blood brokers organize professional donors and supply them to hospitals. The friendless patient pays $50 a pint for blood. Brokers exact 20% of that as commission...
In an attempt to put the commercial blood brokers out of business, the New York Academy of Medicine, County Medical Society and Health Department recently gave their joint blessing to an Association for the Transfusion of Blood in Aid of Suffering. This organization is semi-commercial, quasi eleemosynary. It charges...