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...Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald called a special meeting of the Cabinet. Albert Victor Alexander, First Sea Lord of the British Admiralty, was recalled from leave...
...strenuous athlete, hunter and fisherman is Father Griffin, first U. S. volunteer to this diocese. He received an elementary education in the Parochial schools of Manhattan, then went to St. Anthony's Apostolic School, San Antonio, Tex., conducted by the Oblates. There he played baseball and basketball, led a football combination famed in the Southwest as "The Four Magicians." Summers he spent with the Oblate students and Priests at Fort Lavaca...
Thomas William Lamont. First authoritative word that choleric Chancellor Snowden was losing the support of British financiers came at London from Thomas William Lamont, brisk, decisive, crinkly-eyed partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. Chatting with a correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune?a paper on which he once worked as a reporter?Mr. Lamont said that, although "The City" (financial London) at first strongly backed Chancellor Snowden's demand for £2,000,000 per annum more sponge cake, there was now lively apprehension lest that same demand should wreck the Conference and prevent adoption of the Young...
Gustav Stresemann. The Hague Conference was called to put into operation the Young Plan (TIME, June 10) which fixed for the first time the total Germany must pay in Reparations. Neither Chancellor Snowden nor anyone else has made the slightest objections to this basic feature of the Plan. The whole quarrel at The Hague has been among the Creditor Powers, squabbling over how big a slice each could get. Abruptly last week the squabbling delegates were reminded of the basic-issue by Germany's Foreign Minister, bold, astute Dr. Gustav Stresemann...
...much credit should not be given to Her Majesty, but fact was that not many hours after the royal banquet Mr. Snowden, for the first time since the Conference opened, lunched informally with his chief foe, French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, and with Dr. Stresemann. As every U. S. businessman knows, the bigger the deal, the more vital is lunch...