Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Around the bulky form of Ohio's rich, jovial James Middleton Cox the first big battle of the World Monetary and Economic Conference was fought last week...
...This American, this M. Cox-what do you call him?" European delegates wanted to know. Settling the question Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, President of the Conference, dubbed Mr. Cox, "The Governor."* Promptly he became "Le Gouverneur" to polite but stubborn Frenchmen who made up their minds that M. Cox was not going to chair man the Conference Monetary Committee, first and most important to be formed as 66 nations got down to business last week. France, as the sole Great Power still on the gold standard, felt that her Finance Minister, knife-featured little Georges Bonnet, was the logical...
...Long before we sailed the American Delegation was promised this chairman ship," declared Chief U. S. Delegate Cordell Hull, who must soon return to Washington, leaving Vice-Chief Delegate Cox in London as the No. 1 U. S. Delegate...
Followed four hectic days of lobbying with France in a repulsing mood and Britain lukewarm to "The Governor." In a spat direct Candidate Bonnet said to Candidate Cox: "With Washington committed to devaluation we cannot have an American as monetary chairman...
...With Paris committed to repudiation," retorted Candidate Cox, referring to the French debt default, "we cannot have a Frenchman...