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There was also a theory that President Coolidge had summoned the President-Elect to Washington to discuss Germany's reparations. There was another theory that Congressional leaders wished to confer with Mr. Hoover on farm relief and on the possibility of an extra session of Congress. Finally it was just possible that Mr. Hoover had found too much for him the task of making up a cabinet miles away from everybody. Maybe he was returning to Washington to get some suggestions. Remote aboard the Utah, Mr. Hoover offered no specific explanation...
Through angry muttering crowds of Monégasques, Prince Pierre proceeded resolutely to confer with members of the resigned National Council, and especially with soft-voiced, steel-eyed M. Léon, the young manager of Monte's famed Casino...
Henry Pennypacker '88, chairman of the Harvard Faculty Committee on Admission, will leave on January 19 for a tour of the South, which will last three weeks and take him as far as Atlanta. He will speak in schools of the principal Southern cities and confer with principals and teachers on questions of admission to college. Incidentally he will talk to Harvard Clubs and other meetings of Harvard men, discussing with them the newest developments in Cambridge and answering their questions about the University. His prime subject, however, is to acquaint educators and pupils with entrance requirements of the Eastern...
...producer of crude oil. Harry F. Sinclair needs constantly more oil for the Sinclair Refining Co. Obviously happy would be an arrangement whereby Sinclair refineries could call upon Prairie Oil, whereby Prairie Oil would have an affiliated customer in Sinclair Refining. Why should not Sinclair Directors Walker and Cutten confer together, arrange a merger of Sinclair, Prairie, and, the government permitting, various smaller companies? So the rumors ran; so the oil stock boomed. Yet no authoritative announcement, no merger was forecast for the near future...
...open season for Governors in the South last week. Twenty of them gathered at New Orleans to confer. The most eminent Governor of all, New York's Smith, was not far from New Orleans, golfing and fishing at Biloxi, Miss. But he did not "take in" the conference. Maryland's Ritchie was over in Florida, but he, too, kept his vacation inviolate. Other notable absentees from the New Orleans meeting were Mississippi's Bilbo, who telegraphed that he was too busy even to fly down from Jackson for a day; and Massachusetts' Fuller...