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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Good faith indeed!" she has said with honest English ire. "My husband is deeply, passionately sincere. He believes in his disarmament plan, and he offered it with all his heart...
...Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, wife of the Soviet commissar for foreign affairs, is English, forthright, tart-tongued. She has never met President Herbert Hoover nor Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. But at Geneva last spring she beheld the dapper gentleman they sent to tell the League of Nations and the world for the first time about the President's disarmament plans-Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium...
...shoul d call Gibson a contemptible little bounder," drawled English Mrs. Litvinov not long afterward, and she had a great many things in mind. They bear importantly on the strained relations between Washington and Moscow, relations which creaked last week when Statesman Stimson politely reminded Russia and China in identic notes of their obligation under the Kellogg Pact not to fight, only to be told by Comrade Litvinov with blazing scorn to mind his business...
This joint-ownership ceased last July. Señor Patiño asked Lead to get out- perhaps because Señor Patiño's other English customers for tin objected to his partnership with a lead manufacturer. Regretfully, Lead's President Edward J. Cornish got out. Last week President Cornish got Lead into Associated Lead Manufacturers, Ltd., Great Britain's largest fabricator of lead products. (The deal involved a large but not majority block of stock.) Thus, National Lead is still Señor Patiño's most important customer, with results perhaps...
...Cheapest (English) artificial rubber, made from hydrocarbons, costs...