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...Before the Army & Navy reception, which wound up the White House social season, President & Mrs. Roosevelt had as their dinner guests Dr. & Mrs. Walter N. Thayer. Good friend of the Roosevelts, Dr. Thayer is New York State Commissioner of Correction. Another guest was Geoffrey O'Hara, who owns a copyright to "The Star-Spangled Banner" by virtue of having transposed it to a lower key and who wrote the War song "K-K-K-Katy." After dinner the President listened appreciatively while Singer McGregor McKnight rendered a number with music by Composer O'Hara, lyrics by Dr. Thayer...
...millions of herring to raise prices: "Food under our system has been flung back into the sea. I say that is virtually a sacrilege, because it is flinging God's gifts back into His face. There must come a change in the system!" However, the Rt. Rev. James Geoffrey Gordon, Bishop Suffragan of Jarrow, felt that such talk "would seriously impair the Church's credit...
Another eminent subject of King George to whom the behavior of Great Britons appeared fantastic last week was the League's Australian-born Saar Commissioner, Mr. Geoffrey Knox. When he asked last March for what he suddenly got last week, namely a League Army to police the Saar, everyone in Geneva sat on him, none harder than Sir John Simon...
...Saarlanders who are over 20 years old and were Saarlanders on June 28, 1919 will vote to decide whether the Saar shall remain under League of Nations rule, unite with France or reunite with Germany. Last week the League's long-suffering Commissioner for the Saar, His Excellency Geoffrey Knox, totaled up the number of Saarlanders who had registered to vote and snapped with British disdain: "A most obvious and patent fraud...
Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellowship: Geoffrey I. Stagg, 1G, of Birmingham, England...