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Delegate at Large. The only active negotiator the U. S. had on the European disarmament front last week was Norman Hezekiah Davis, a grey-haired, drawling Tennessee Democrat. On an allowance of $6 per day from his Government (and spending five times that much out of his own pocket), Mr. Davis was covering more ground more effectively than a full-fledged delegation of plenipotentiaries. A diplomat who had earned his spurs under Woodrow Wilson, he was picked by President Hoover as a U. S. delegate to the League of Nations' General Disarmament Conference which opened last February at Geneva...
...Uzziah to Hezekiah. 1st Captivity," Professor Lake, Fogg...
...President Hoover instructed Secretary of State Stimson to sail this week for Geneva where he will spend a fortnight at the League of Nations Disarmament Conference. Statesman Stimson hoped the sea trip would help him recover from an attack of influenza. Twice last week President Hoover conferred with Norman Hezekiah Davis, a U. S. delegate at the Geneva parley...
...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 replaced him with Secretary of State...
...following is the cast, in the order of their appearance: Mrs. Grady C. T. F. B. Lyon '27 Derrick Breen F. M. Eaton '27 George Darling J. C. McDonald '26 Myrtle Grady W. S. Wilson '27 Abercrombie J. H. Wright '25 Hezekiah Fitch R. F. Burke '25 Alice Breen C. S. Gross '27 Suzanne Waring A. M. Carrillo Jr. '26 Hollis Holworthy M. L. Brown '25 Jasper Breen E. S. Daniell...