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Alanson Bigelow Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, whilom (1922-25) Ambassador to Ger many, nominee for the Senate in New York, was third of the G. O. P. spokesmen to plead with Missouri. He went at Nominee Hoover's special request. This request breathed life into one of the most delicate political relations of the season. Soon after Mr. Houghton's mission was announced, arrived a letter from Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois, Nominee Hoover's long-sulking rival for last June's nomination. It was the first utterance of any moment that...
...dream of Medieval Crusaders by capturing the Holy City of Jerusalem from Infidels who are still Infidels. Likewise among the twelve is Admiral Earl Jellicoe, trim and hearty at 68, who commanded the British Grand Fleet in the victorious though costly action at Jutland (1916) after which Ger mans did not again dispute the seas with Britons. The remaining Knights inducted, last week, were: General Sir Josceline Heneage Wodehouse, General Sir John Maxwell, Lieutenant General Sir Alfred Keogh, Admiral Sir Henry Bradwordine Jackson, Admiral Baron Wester Wemyss, Admiral Sir Charles Madden, Lt. Col. Sir Maurice Hankey, Sir Eric Geddes...
...them were in the habit of reading the editorials he writes for the New York Evening World. But few of them had realized what a whacking fine speaker he is. Last week, when nationally important Democrats met again in Washington, they elected the mild-mannered Manhattanite-Orator Claude Ger-nade Bowers, native of Indiana-to make the party's keynote speech at Houston next month...
Herman N. Bundesen, health commissioner, Berlin, Ger...
...Moscow last week the Russo-German Trade Treaty (TIME, Oct. 12) was signed by Acting Foreign Minister Litvinov and the President of the Russian Treaty Negotiating Committee, M. Ganetski, for the Soviet Union; and by the Ger. man Ambassador, Count Brock-dorff-Rantzau, and the President of the German Committee, Herr von Kerner, for Germany...