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...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...
Progression. The investigation moved forward again when Gordon Sohn Rentschler, president of Manhattan's National City Bank, appeared to tell of his company's interest in Cuban sugar production and a low sugar duty. His story was forthright: National City had loaned large sums to Cuban planters who had been caught in the 1920-21 sugar deflation. National City had formed General Sugars, Inc., to take and operate over 3,250,000 acres, a $30,000,000 investment. To the United States Sugar Association's low-duty lobby fund, Mr. Rentschler's bank had contributed $10,000, had spent...
...known that he had in pocket an important declaration concerning world peace. At British delegation headquarters it was hinted that the prime minister would make at least a partial announcement of progress made thus far in his almost daily parleys' anent naval reduction with President Hoover's forthright, hubble-bubbling Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (TIME, June...
Flushed with praise and the knowledge that he had just been appointed Acting Prime Minister in the absence of James Ramsay MacDonald at Geneva (see The League), forthright Chancellor Snowden voiced his pride frankly to correspondents: "We succeeded in all the essential points of our claims. . . . The influence of Great Britain in international affairs has been reestablished. . . . The arrangement for withdrawal of foreign troops from the Rhine is the greatest political achievement since Locarno...
...each other a Christmas present last week, five years in advance. In the Tribune, over both their signatures [magnified to seven-inch lengths], they published an "estimate" of what their national nickel-weekly Liberty is going to do by way of circulation in the next few years. Always forthright, they made this "estimate" in open comparison to Liberty's staid senior in the nickel-weekly field, The Saturday Evening Post. Always cheerful, their present to themselves was to show, on a graph, the consummation of their dearest ambition?Liberty becoming as large as the Post?at Christmastime in 1934. Thereafter...