Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ratified: 1) a Hague convention modifying the rules of the International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property: 2) a Pan-American pact for protection of trademarks and commerce. ¶ Confirmed the nominations of Joshua Reuben Clark to be Ambassador to Mexico, of Hoffman Philip to be Minister to Norway, of Nicholas Roosevelt to be Minister to Hungary, of Joshua Butler Wright to be Minister to Uruguay, of Charles Edwin Mitchell to be Minister Resident in Liberia. ¶ Adjourned until...
Cosden Receivership. In 1925 the most typical example of the oilman whose wells had gushed richly was Joshua S. Cosden, head of Cosden & Co. He had vast estates in Palm Beach and Long Island, entertained lavishly, followed horses as well as stocks. His wealth was estimated at $50,000,000. Surely his expenditures lent veracity to this figure. But after heavy losses in the stockmarket he lost control of Cosden & Co. which became Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp., was reported financially down & out. Three years later his friends financed a projected comeback. He moved from Manhattan to Fort Worth, energetically entered...
...Palestine. Everybody knows that Joshua and his army of invading Israelites marched round about the Canaanite city of Jericho, blew trumpets for seven days before they sacked the city. Recently British archeologists who have spent many months studying the ruins of the city which was destroyed almost 4,000 years ago, announced that they had discovered why Joshua made so much noise. A charred tree trunk plugged into a hole in the inner wall suggested that Israelite trumpeters blew blasts to hide the work of Israelite engineers who were picking holes in the fortifications. Every hole was plugged with...
President Hoover last week appointed Joshua Reuben Clark of Salt Lake City to be U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, vice Dwight Whitney Morrow, resigned. Ambassador Clark, a onetime (1928-29) Undersecretary of State, was serving as legal adviser to the U. S. Embassy in Mexico City when promoted...
...reshuffled his cards, dealt a moral victory to the native politicos of the Philippines, to Mr. Roosevelt a face-saving promotion, to his own Administration a neat out. Other simultaneous dealings included the acceptance of the resignation of Leland Harrison as Minister to Uruguay and the transfer of jovial Joshua Butler Wright as Minister from Hungary to Uruguay...