Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Agent General of Reparations, Seymour Parker Gilbert, stopped fashionably in Rome last week at the Hotel Excelsior. One morning there called for him a twinkling limousine in which sat a scrubby bearded Roman of alert, engaging mien. Soon Agent Gilbert stepped into the limousine and sped away for a day of motoring and converse with Finance Minister Count Giuseppe Volpi, famed co-negotiator with Secretary Mellon of the Italo-U. S. debt settlement (TIME...
Later, the scrubby bearded Count formally presented Mr. Gilbert to Signor Mussolini. There was much talk-about what...
...Agent Gilbert avoided denying to newsgatherers that he came to sound out Italians upon possible future modification of the Dawes Plan. He is known to favor assigning to Germany a definite total reparations debt in place of her present sliding commitments to the Allies. Moreover Agent Gilbert is thought to lean toward the scheme for raising money to fund most of the German indebtedness in cash, by placing on the market huge blocs of German railway & industrial bonds now held by the Reparations Commission...
What Agent Gilbert did definitely say, last week,, was that any contemplated revision of the Dawes Plan is still "in the phase of study," and that "no extraordinary or decisive results" are to be expected from his present visit to Rome. He went on to reaffirm his oft repeated statement that the revision of German liabilities at a definite and presumably somewhat reduced figure would not necessarily involve a similar readjustment of Allied indebtedness to the U. S. Said Agent Gilbert, in the manner of President Coolidge: "The reparation question is an entirely independent problem concerning only European nations...
...White Engineering Corp. ("greatest in the world") will superintend the construction of the proposed toll bridges across the Ohio and Missouri rivers. Millions will be spent and huge masses of steel will be flung across wide water, but all the same these jobs are small ones for James Gilbert White. He is a great imperialist of U. S. contracting. Upon five continents his engineers are carrying the dynamic principles of U. S. business into lands where U. S. political influence will perhaps never penetrate. A huge dam in Abyssinia, a railroad in South America, and the construction of a great...