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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus did Charles Gates Dawes, new-fledged Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, shrewd, Rooseveltian master of the art of self-projection, greet the British nation last week. The international air had suddenly become filled with clouds of incense and Anglo-American goodwill. Prime Minister MacDonald was planning to go and talk with President Hoover about naval disarmament. Astute Mr. Dawes made it clear that he would try to keep beatific sentiment from cloying by playing his role of hustling, plainspoken, rough-diamond American...
...Washington. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman, in charge of Prohibition enforcement, asserted that both killings were justified and justifiable. He stoutly promised that the U. S. would stand behind Patrolman White, would transfer his murder case from the Minnesota courts to the U. S. court. He asserted that the newspaper accounts of the Virkula killing were "highly colored, to put it mildly," a statement denounced as "absolutely false" by the Minnesota authorities at International Falls. He rejected the suggestion that the Treasury disarm its border patrolmen, "which in effect would amount to a repeal of the Tariff...
...recourse then was the Press, to "minimize as far as possible" damage "which can never be repaired." Through newsgatherers he challenged Senator Norris to come out from behind Senatorial immunity and repeat his charges. "If he will state this outside the Senate, I will bring him promptly before a Court of Justice." Then, describing himself as an "oldfashioned American citizen," he continued...
...Titus brought suit against Burnee Corp. His claim: That transfer of stock to the new company in 1915 was made without his consent and in violation of his rights. His demand: That he be given an accounting of and a share in the profits. The decision: New York Supreme Court Justice Peter A. Hatting held that Plaintiff Titus could not share in the millions he had refused to help build up. Justice Hatting pointed out that Plaintiff Titus knew of the transfer of stock rights to the Burnee Corp., did not investigate, did nothing. Although not actually expressed, the doctrine...
Last week, Italy's Fascist Government, through counsel for Magno Santovincenzo, Acting Italian Consul in New York City, entered a claim in surrogate's court for the Comincio savings. Their reason: under Italian law. all estates of Italian citizens who die intestate without heirs, no matter where they had lived, revert to Italy's King upon their death...