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...Indian cotton. In vain Japan's rheumy-eyed Finance Minister, withered Viscount Korekiyo Takahashi, protested that "any boycott is to be deprecated." He was called "weak" by an irate Tokyo press. In their bitter reaction against Britain, Japanese last week exuberantly acclaimed and feted the U. S. cruiser Houston, first courtesy call paid by the U. S. Asiatic flagship in Japanese waters in five years...
Both the United States Army and Navy were represented by high officers from the Boston area. Alson present were J. C. J. Flamand. French Consul in Boston, and G. B. Beak, the British Consul. M. Flamand was accompanied by the ranking officers of the French cruiser, "d'Entrecasteaux," which is now in Boston. Captain V. J. Maitre and Executive Officer A. M. Bellof...
President was tired and wanted to get away this week on his own vacation which included a sail up the New England coast on the schooner Amberjack II to his mother's summer home in New Brunswick and a speedy run down to the Virginia Capes on the cruiser Indianapolis. All week long President Roosevelt poked, pressed and prodded Congress towards adjourning Saturday night. To placate the House he gave ground on his pension cuts (see p. 13). To avoid a long Senate wrangle, he dropped his plan to ask Congress for authority to make special tariff treaties...
...Preaching is doomed," cried a preacher last week at the Northern Baptist Convention in Washington. He was Dr. Bernard Chancellor Clausen, slight, blond, emphatic pastor of Syracuse, N. Y.'s First Baptist Church, a onetime Navy chaplain and communications officer on the U. S. cruiser North Carolina. Dr. Clausen began broadcasting sermons in 1920. He now speaks eight or ten sentences to "appropriate" music in a morning radio service, conducts a Saturday night radio Bible class with dramatized Bible stories. Last February Dr. Clausen spoke by air to the "largest audience of Baptists ever assembled," his listeners tuning...
...first, on the British cruiser which carried him to safety in 1919, with a "horrible sense of acute humiliation . . . that a grandson of Emperor Nicholas I had to be rescued from Russians by Britishers," Alexander thought of suicide. Further humiliations were to follow. In Paris he was informed that he would not be allowed to enter England, for the time being. The landlord of his Paris apartment held him up for back rent. When he called on his old friend Arthur Balfour, in Paris for the Peace Conference, he saw Balfour running for an exit to avoid seeing him. Asked...