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Once in, President Hoover gave himself up wholly to the London conference. He sent word to Ambassador Dawes, vacationing in Evanston, Ill., to get back to London immediately. By telephone Secretary Stimson reported two or three times a day to the White House on the preliminary negotiations in Paris between the French and German ministers. When he detailed a French plan whereby, to get a loan, Germany must declare a political truce for ten years against the Versailles Treaty and the status quo of Europe guaranteed by the other powers, President Hoover looked glum, said something about such an idea...
Washington broke a 12-year precedent by officially delegating Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Ambassador to France Edge to the conference. Ambassador Dawes was ordered to leave Evanston, Ill., get back on the job in London as soon as possible (see p. 9). The world press hailed this as the breakdown of U. S. Isolation...
...Howard Hildebrand, Lisbon, Ohio; Lee Keidel, Lawrenceburg, Ind.; James L. Stern, Philadelphia; Nelson H. Brooks, New Haven, Conn.; Cyril J. Bath, Cleveland; Edward H. Sapt Jr., Wenonah, N. J.; Gerald V. Strang, Berkeley, Calif.; David H. Shearer, Rochester, N. Y.; Q. L. Quinlivan, Arlington, N. J.; W. A. Gardner, Evanston, 111., Lewis C. Hawkins, Fair Haven...
...John Bain chain went down, affecting laborers and commuting clerks in such Southside districts as Stony Island, Auburn Park, Englewood and Chicago Lawn. Although onetime Scot and onetime Plumber Bain said depositors would receive 100%, the alarm spread. By the end of the week 29 banks had closed, Evanston, Des Plaines, Washington Park and Beverly Hills had been added, along with other communities, to U. S. towns where bank failures have caused suffering. Biggest of these was North-Western Trust & Savings Bank, affiliated with the Foreman group, with $14,000,000 in deposits. Smallest was Industrial State Bank with only...
...spruce up pudgy prospective preachers, to make them fit and healthy, President Frederick Carl Eiselen of Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Ill. announced last week that henceforth his divinity students must take periodic health examinations throughout their four-year course. To preach well, said he, one must look well...