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Alexandre Millerand, President of France: " Various political interpretations were placed by Parisians on a report that Pope Pius XI intends to confer the Order of the Golden Rose upon my wife, and also present her with a golden rosebud insigne...
Colonel Tarafa, the Cuban railway magnate who wants to tax American sugar companies on their private Cuban railroads and ports, went to New York to confer with the sugar interests. He conferred and issued several statements that a compromise was being reached. Others cast doubt on this prospect. If a satisfactory solution is not reached the State Department will be called upon to decide whether the Tarafa railroad bill,* now in the Cuban Congress, is detrimental to the rights of Americans who have capital invested in the Cuban sugar industry...
There was nothing more to it. The President continued to confer copiously with Government officers. Overtly he did very little, aside from taking a few preliminary steps in the coal quandary. But his influence began to be felt...
Major General Enoch H. Crowder, V. S. A., retired, Ambassador to Cuba, was ordered by Secretary of State Hughes to return to Washington to confer on the Cuban situation. General Crowder, former Judge Advocate General of the Army, author of the details of the military draft during the War, has in several capacities been the protecting genius of Cuba ever since the Spanish War. Lately he has been responsible for the financial rehabilitation of that country. His instructions to return to Washington indicate serious concern on the part of the State Department over the financial course adopted by the Cuban...
General Hines, who had issued the offending order, appeared oppportunely on the spot and conferred with the townspeople. A committee of three was appointed to confer with Director Hines, who declared his unwillingness " to be a partner to anything that might be detrimental to the Tuskegee community." Before the hospital was established it seems that the citizens of Tuskegee were given to understand that a white staff would be in charge. Director Hines declared that the Government might be under a moral obligation to provide white doctors, even if Negro orderlies and nurses were employed...