Word: gibsonized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice emphatically to declare: "The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhelming burden of armament which now lies upon the toilers of the world." An hour and 15 minutes later in Geneva. U. S. Ambassador Gibson was reading the Hoover plan to the assembled delegates at the Disarmament Conference. The President had made his proposal as a bold and radical attempt to galvanize the conference into action after five months of fumbling. Its reception by the Conference was only lukewarm. But plain as a pikestaff...
...galvanized by news that Washington had a message for the world. Flustered Mr. Henderson called the adjourned Conference back into being. Spectators swarmed buzzing into the galleries. In the press box newshawks hunched forward, fastened their eyes upon the rostrum. When U. S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh S. Gibson cleared his throat and ruffled his papers, they scribbled that he "looked nervous," mentioned "his snow-white hair, though he is only...
Plunging into his speech, Ambassador Gibson began: "I am desired by the President of the United States to communicate to the Conference the text of a statement which he is giving out at this moment. It is his hope that the public statement of such a program will fire the imagination of the world...
...last week, to meet again after "private conversations" have taken place between the Great Powers concerned. A plan, said to have been devised by President Hoover last January and held in reserve until last week was submitted to the chief delegates by U. S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh Simons Gibson. Simple, the Hoover plan is this: Let each nation determine for itself and announce to the Conference what weapons & effectives it needs for purposes of maintaining peace & order within its own frontiers. Let weapons & effectives above this minimum be designated as "surplus." Let the nations negotiate afresh to reduce surpluses...
...annual deficit. Both died, but last season when popular subscriptions failed to cover the losses, the Taft estate made up this difference. This year people were saying that it was the Emerys' turn and the challenge was taken up by young Mrs. John Josiah Emery, Artist Charles Dana Gibson's daughter who married old Mrs. Mary Emery's nephew. In April when the opera announced that it would have to disband, young Mrs. Emery at once started a campaign for funds, quickly raised the $20,000 necessary to see this season through...