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...will be Professor F. Dominois of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Orientales, Paris, Professor J. L. Brierly of Oxford, Professor James T. Shotwell of Columbia University, Professor Beni Prasad of the University of Allahabad, India, Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, Minister of External Affairs, Irish Free State, and Mr. William S. Culbertson, Vice-chairman of the United States Tariff Commission...
Friction is waste. Friction was removed from a governmental cog, last week, by the appointment of William Smith Culbertson to be U. S. Minister to Rumania. Mr. Culbertson has been a Republican, a Tariff Commissioner and yet- friction's cause-not entirely sympathetic with the epochal Fordney-McCumber tariff. He joined recently with the Democratic Commissioners in officially advising the President to reduce the import duty on sugar-advice which has so far been ignored. But Mr. Culbertson has none of the insurgent's zest for battle. To cause embarrassment, embarrasses him. He was willing to resign with...
...wrote a Glossary on Schedule K (wool tariff of 1910), which marked him as a tariff expert. Except for a few years spent in private law practice in Washington and a year as "Y" secretary overseas, Mr. Culbertson has devoted himself to the tariff...
...State Department, last year was elevated to an assistant Secretaryship of State. As soon as Minister Schurman accepted the Berlin post, Mr. MacMurray was put forward as the ideal candidate for Peking. Would politics interfere? Could Senator Curtis persuade the President to appoint his fellow-Kan- san, William S. Culbertson? Could some other Senator win the post for some one else? In a word...
...William S. Culbertson, of the U. S. Tariff Commission, proposed an international conference on the distribution of raw materials and the conservation of national resources.