Word: kellogg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank Billings Kellogg, his Secretary of State, heard about it at Des Moines on his way to California. Andrew William Mellon, his Secretary of the Treasury, found it hard to believe the news as the S. S. Majestic carried him back to his Ambassadorial post at London. Dwight Filley Davis, his Secretary of War, was at Tallahassee. John Garibaldi Sargent, his Attorney General, was recovering from influenza at his Ludlow, Vt. home. Frank Stearns, his closest personal friend, the man who picked him for President long before the Boston police strike, was so overcome with grief in Boston that...
...signing the Kellogg-Briand Anti-War Pact, assume that the possibility of war was about to vanish? Decidedly not, most people would agree...
...refused it. Last week, acting as his own counsel, he filed a brief with Federal Judge Matthew M. Joyce. So did R. A. Carlson, district director of naturalization, representing the U. S. Government. Judge Joyce will decide between the two late this month. Central issue lay in the Kellogg-Briand Treaty. Alien Beale said he would bear arms only under the terms laid down by Statesman Kellogg, citizen of Minneapolis. He inferred that those terms make unnecessary any pledge and that the treaty "now constitutes our chief national defense." He declared he would defend the U. S. if need...
Birthdays. Frank Billings Kellogg, 76; Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), 70; Rudyard Kipling, 67; Harvey Samuel Firestone. 64; Edwin Arlington Robinson, 63; Lucrezia Bori, 43; England's Prince George, 30; Princess Maria of Italy...
...Britain, France, Germany and Italy declared that, as signatories to the Briand-Kellogg Pact "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy," they are ready to sign with other European states a stronger pact renouncing "recourse to force" in settling European disputes...