Word: herter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well for America to remember that naval problems are not confined to the Atlantic and Pacific alone," said C. A. Herter '15, Editor of "The Sportsman" and lecturer on international relations at Harvard, in discussing the 1930 Naval Parley with a CRIMSON representative yesterday. "There is a problem in the Mediterranean in which Great Britain, Italy, and France are vitally interested...
...Parley, which Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, and Japan have signified their intention of attending, is viewed by Mr. Herter as "offering great hope, not only in the solution of problems left untouched by the 1922 Washington conference, such as cruisers of 10,000 tons and less, submarines, destroyers, and the like, but also in regard to the extension of the benefits of the Washington treaty by delaying the replacement of capital ships...
...inspectorial eye twinkled almost as brightly as the diamond clasp on Mrs. Herter's triple strand of pearls. The declaration showed that the Herters had prudently limited their foreign purchases to exactly the amount-$200 worth-which they could bring in free. The inspectors smiled, perhaps to congratulate onetime Collector Edwards upon having such modest, honest friends, and began looking into Herter trunks in a way that promised to be pleasantly perfunctory...
...Herter-Edwards conversation was interrupted by an ominous silence and then a silken rustling between the customs men. They were pulling out of one Herter trunk an astonishing quantity of flowered cerise silk, lined with baby blue. The material eventually resolved itself into a gentleman's dressing gown of prodigious proportions, a dressing gown from Paris to fit only such a monster figure as that of William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards. This article, which was a present for Mr. Edwards, was nowhere mentioned in the Herter's declaration...
...Herter regained her smile. Mr. Herter was not so cheerful, especially when the inspectors crashed his four bottles of choice liquor and told him that he would have to pay a big bill-$12,-919.25 in duties & fines-to recover all his property. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, onetime Collector of the Internal revenue, left the pier in a thoughtful mood, perhaps reflecting that other friends of his returning from Europe with goods to smuggle will not soon welcome his large and eloquent presence to meet them on the dock...