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Smart Mr. Gibson made "Nine Points and said he might make more. Smart Signer Grandi made "Seven Points." Like firecrackers on a Chinese New Year's Day good ideas exploded every second, producing the effect of a vast Bedlam of Brilliance among the 2.500 smart people. (Biggest delegation: 100 Japanese...
...earnest hope that the U. S. could somehow help other great powers agree to limit their soldiery. For U. S. participation he asked Congress for $450,000 as expense money. To represent the country he appointed a delegation of five: Charles Gates Dawes, Ambassador to Great Britain, Hugh Simons Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium, Norman Hezekiah Davis, onetime Under Secretary of State. Claude Augustus Swanson, Senator from Virginia, and Mary Emma Woolley. president of Mount Holyoke College. They were called "the best practical pacifists available." Mr. Dawes resigned as a delegate to become president of Reconstruction Finance Corp. and President Hoover...
Flowers & Farewell? With Messrs. Gibson and Davis already in Europe, Delegates Woolley and Swanson sailed from New York fortnight ago on the President Harding. A troop of advisers, technical experts, aides and clerks accompanied them. Also, several peace organizations sent along unofficial delegates of their own. Peace petitions were signed and loaded aboard. When the ship sailed Aviatrix Ruth Nichols flew round the masts clad in a purple leather jacket, went aboard at Quarantine and presented Delegate Woolley with two large bunches of spring flowers. The Federal Council of Churches gave the delegates its blessing and called for a nation...
...Gibson Advises Home Buyers Not to Delay ... Bargains Are Here Now ... There is Money to be Made in Realty Right Now ... Time to Invest in Real Estate, Says Silverman ... Realty Revival Soon, Visioned by MacDougal ... Nassau County Expecting Gain in Home Owners ... Outlook Good in Queens, Says Trade Leader ... Beckmann Says Liquidation is Virtually at End ... Flushing Should be an Active Center This Year ... Broker Predicts Strong Market for Real Estate ... Predicts Active Call for Homes in Larchmont...
...Manhattan public school, Wynne Gibson one day met two friends who were going to see a theatrical agent. She went with them, became a chorus girl in Tangerine. Like Stuart Erwin (who also appears in Two Kinds of Women, comparatively sober), she has distinguished herself by an ability to simulate drunkenness. Erwin is a happy toper, wayward, confident and dazed. Wynne Gibson, when simulating the effects of alcohol, grows querulous and sly. Her voice becomes a gentle whine, her hands dangle nervously as though she hoped to make a gesture, but had forgotten how. Small, slim, with red hair...