Word: kellogg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pago-Pago,* perhaps the most valuable harbor in the Pacific, ceded over to the U.S. by the native king in 1872. Samoa later became a U.S. dependency under a tripartite agreement with Great Britain and Germany. Under the administration of the Navy Department, its present governor is Captain E.S. Kellogg, U.S.N. It is 4.200 miles from San Francisco, 4,200 miles from Manila. Its 9,000 natives, called the highest type of the Polynesian race, are all Christians. The chief product is cocoanuts, the dried kernel of which is copra...
...magnates learned with intense annoyance that these monopolies are seriously contemplated. The U. S. financial press rather hysterically denied rumors that the French Government may be planning to freeze out U. S. and British oil-producing firms and draw all its "monopoly" supplies of petroleum from Soviet Russia. Secretary Kellogg deemed these possibilities so serious that he cabled Ambassador Herrick to report upon the situation. Two days later, however, the French Senate, while it rushed though the new taxes 232 to 12, voted to postpone application of the sugar and oil monopolies. In Wall Street there ensued a modicum...
...green legal shingle of young lawyer Pat swung in the breeze at Leakesville, Miss., has he spoken with more vigorous abandon. He flayed the Administration for what he called its "dark lantern diplomacy." He referred slightingly to President Coolidge as "Careful Cal." He openly derided Secretary of State Kellogg as "Nervous Nellie." All this he did because the press of the world became excited about an alleged report on the European situation in general, said to have been made by a gentleman whom Senator Harrison referred...
...considered a body blow to the Administration's "spokesman" system. Famed Washington correspondent Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sini, who has consistently twitted Mr. Coolidge on one ground or another ever since he appeared at Washington as Vice President, was openly delighted last week. He gloated: "Mr. Kellogg had a nervous fit. There was perturbation in the Coolidge circle. The trouble was they had been thinking in terms of domestic publicity, not world publicity. What they got was world publicity, and a large dose at that...
...that he saw no trouble between Mexico and the U. S. which could not be circumvented by diplomacy. Next day a luncheon was given at the White House to Dr. Jose Manuel Puig-Casavrane, Mexican Minister of Education, and Ambassador Don Manuel C. Tellez. Among the guests were Secretary Kellogg, Secretary Work, Secretary Hoover, Representative Stephen G. Porter and Representative Linthicum. The last two are respectively Chairman and ranking Democrat of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, which on March 30 will hold a hearing on the expulsion of foreign nuns and priests by the Mexican Government...