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...Loeb backed E. H. Harriman against Hill (backed by Morgan) in the struggle for control of the Northern Pacific. Jacob Schiff, dining in London dur ing the Russo-Japanese War, met Korekiyo Takahashi (now at 78 Finance Minister of Japan), and on the strength of an eve ning's conversation became Japan's banker, sold $200,000,000 of her bonds in the U. S. (biggest international loan prior to the World War). Since then K. L. has floated leans for Sweden, Holland, Austria, Argentina, for Antwerp. Paris. Marseilles and many another state and city...
...after Ambassador Bingham's open-ing-wedge speech, Secretary of State Hull sailed for London determined to negotiate a program of reduced tariffs, stabilized currencies and a general increase in world prices. Other conference delegates aboard the "President Roosevelt" with him were Nevada's Senator Pittman, Tennessee's Representative McReynolds and Texas' Ralph Morrison. Later in the week Delegate James Middleton Cox departed on the Olympic, declaring: "If the world is sick enough to have gained any sense, the Conference will be a success...
...ground that as an ex-Congressman he had wangled many a tax case out of the Treasury. Michigan's Couzens denounced him as a man of "shifty eyes and shifty methods." Kansas' Senator Capper declared that, though always opposed to him politically, he thought Appointee Helver-ing was an honest man. ¶ Passed the Independent Offices Appropriation bill, after adopting (43-10-42) an amendment limiting pension cuts by the President to 25%; sent it to conference...
...were paying $2,000 per day for five floors. &3134; There he would dress, dine quietly, go early to bed. He made no off-stage appearances about Washington in the evening. In the committee room Senators found him an easy, pleasant gentleman who could give them cigars without mak-ing them feel under obligation to him. His partners' testimony he followed as closely as if he were hearing things about his own business for the first time. From Senatorial wisecracks he often got large belly laughs, with his narrow blue eyes wrinkling up out of sight under bushy grey...
...youngest son, Infante Gonzalo, 18, last week was reported courting an English girl, also against the wishes of his father who cut off his allowance, took away his automobile. Follow-ing the example of Big Brother Alfonso, Gonzalo continued his courting...