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...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...
...statistically allows for more freak births. Dysfunction of glands similarly causes gigantism, which seems to be less common than dwarfism. Giants and dwarfs are as a rule sterile. Henrietta Maria, queen to King Charles I of England was curious about the fertility of her dwarfs, ordered her pet, Richard Gibson to marry another pet, Anne. The Gibsons together measured 7 ft. 2 in. They had nine children, of whom five lived. The five attained normal stature. Queen Catherine de Medici in a spirit of scientific research forced all her court dwarfs to mate. All were barren...
...more include Andrew William Mellon, his brother Richard, the late Ambassador to France Henry White, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the late Percy R. Pyne. Of $50,000 or more: Henry and Edsel Ford, the late Samuel Mather of Cleveland and his half-brother William, John Hays Hammond, Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, the late William Amory Gardiner...
Band Wagon. At the annual banquet last week of the Yale Daily News (see p. 28), Manhattan Banker Harvey Dow Gibson advised today's college graduate to look upon Business as a professional or graduate school where he will study trade for at least three years. Let him have patience, reflect that parents were once willing to pay firms to take in and train their sons. Depression has made business wary, efficient-"only the best men have been retained and the way to advancement is open to the best men without favoritism. Today there is the opportunity of learning...