Word: kellogg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...message touched conventionally on foreign relations, taking the Senate's ratification of the Kellogg treaty for granted. Again the cruiser bill was urged ("I wish to repeat again for the benefit of the timid and the suspicious that this country is neither militaristic nor imperialistic"). Farm relief was urged-a revolving loan fund to help market surpluses; more research work, especially by the States. The Coolidge desires to see more railroad mergers and to get the government entirely out of the shipping business were re-expressed. There were flat pronouncements for building the Boulder Dam and against the government...
...Marines to put it in order and thus safeguard present U. S. loans & property. The State Department assigned the survey to Dr. William Wilson Cumberland, who was just through serving as U. S. financial dictator of Haiti. Dr. Cumberland went, saw and reported last March to Secretary Kellogg on the fiscal state of Nicaragua. President Diaz took his copy of the report to U. S. bankers, but his negotiations continued fruitless...
Secretary Kellogg, greatly agitated, stammered out two explanations. In the first place, he called attention to the fact that the Cumberland report was put out by the State Department only as "the personal views of Dr. Cumberland," not as an official program. In the second place, he made the incredible announcement that the State Department had not known Mr. Hoover was going to visit Nicaragua. Secretary Kellogg added, vaguely, that there were some suggestions in the Cumberland report of which he did not approve...
Again paraphrasing President Coolidge, though in more vigorous language, Dr. Stresemann added: "It is cheap to sneer at the Kellogg Pact renouncing war. The Kellogg pact is what the governments and peoples themselves will make of it. I do not doubt that history will see in it an important advance toward better international relations...
...vexed by reports that President Calvin Coolidge had made up his mind to raise the tariff on corn and flaxseed. Vexed anew, last week, was President Irigoyen when the Independent El Diario of Buenos Aires issued a presumptuous statement that it expects the government to refuse to sign the Kellogg Peace Pact on the grounds that Argentina is "a traditionally peaceful country...