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Someone has called the Kellogg Peace Pact dead as a dodo. Signed in August at Paris with a pen of gold, welcomed with reservations by governments and with enthusiasm by peoples, it has been killed by the appearance in increasing quantity of the details of the Anglo-French naval agreement and the notes which accompanied that. First--the secrecy attending the agreement; and latest--the unofficial official publication in the Echo de Paris on October 4 of a "summary, exact as possible" of the notes exchanged between the French and British governments in July. The results are these: the British...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAD DODO | 10/10/1928 | See Source »

...known about the outbreak of the Great War and about treaties between belligerents. Although the United States has stoadfastly refused to come to grips with international organization or contribute to it, it remains to be seen what the Senate will do with the Kellogg Peace Pact, the "dead dodo." And with the coming known of the Anglo-French naval agreement and the circumstances surrounding it, perhaps the Kellogg pact to renounce war as an instrument of national policy may be encouraged to live...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAD DODO | 10/10/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., 19, who follows his famed father's profession in Hollywood; to Joan Crawford, 22, cinemactress (Four Walls, Sally, Irene & Mary) who calls him "Dodo," who already wears a wedding ring inscribed, "To my beloved wife from Dodo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 17, 1928 | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...hasten to correct what might be taken as the wrong impression of our attitude toward farming. I do not believe that farming is "obsolescent foolishness," neither do I think, nor have ever said that the farmer "ought to be put in a museum along with the dodo and the cobbler and the individual candlestick maker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...biggest farmer in the world is Thomas D. Campbell of Montana. As an important example he is vital to any farm discussion. He says, in effect, that the very idea of "a farmer" is obsolescent foolishness, that he ought to be put in a museum along with the dodo and the cobbler and the individual candlestick maker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Relief? | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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