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...delegation, having obtained this flat British retraction, could do no more. When Chief U. S. Delegate Hugh S. Gibson again tried to get favorable action on President Hoover's proposal of Disarmament-By-One-Third (TIME, July 4), he was blocked by the French and British Delegations, as before. On the important disarmament issue a Franco-British "united front" was seen definitely to exist...
...letter. Lady & Gent (Paramount). Throughout this picture George Bancroft has a miserable time. He is Slag Bailey, a superannuated pugilist who turns up drunk for the bout on which his manager (James Gleason) has bet their last nickel. Beaten, his ruin is completed when his mistress. Puff (Wynne Gibson), has her night club wrecked by gangsters, when his manager gets shot while opening a fight club's safe. While Puff and Slag are squabbling over their misfortunes they receive a telegram which makes Puff suspect that the manager has hidden some of Slag's earnings...
...there was no showdown last week in Geneva. The Japanese Ambassador did not utter his instructions, which were made known at Tokyo by the Foreign Office spokesman. Therefore they could be changed. President Hoover, through his Geneva representative and close friend Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson, made every effort to get his program debated by the Disarmament Conference, knowing that Italy, Spain and many a minor nation would champion it warmly...
...Ambassador Gibson scored any success at Geneva last week it was in bringing the French delegation around to a slightly less hostile attitude toward the President's proposals. In the House of Commons last week acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Leader of the Conservative (Majority) Party, said: "We can't settle matters by merely declaring we agree with the United States. . . . The most dangerous thing we could do would be to say the thing could be achieved in a certain way without first examining all the details...
Puff. Representing 29 U. S. peace-promoting organizations. Mrs Laura Puffer Morgan called on Ambassador Gibson at Geneva, gave the President's proposals a thoroughgoing puff...