Word: kellogg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little new or revealing evidence of those ten tense years is placed before the observer; the events appear in much the same light that illumined them in 1932 or '33. The Japanese betrayal of the Kellogg-Brian compact began the downhill course. Following the Manchurian invasion, Secretary Stimson foresaw repetition of the same form of lawlessness, and American policy began to take shape. By protest and testimonial, American, and later, allied statesmen have been excoriating totalitarian aggression ever since. The rise of Hitler brought warnings from Washington, the invasion of Ethiopia drew pleas for "resumption of international responsibility...
...passed up Herbert Hoover, newly elected to put two chickens in every pot?because 1928 was the businessmen's year and Walter P. Chrysler was their symbol. When Business crashed in 1929 we passed by Hoover again, skipped over Explorer Byrd and Peace-Pacter Kellogg in favor of Owen D. Young, just back from Paris with his hopeful plan for settling Europe's troubles...
...divided among 25 persons. Of these, one, Alexis Carrel (medicine), has returned to France. The first and second U.S. winners in science, Albert Abraham Michelson (physics) and Theodore Richards (chemistry), have died. Five U.S. winners of the peace prize have died: Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Woodrow Wilson, Frank Billings Kellogg, Jane Addams...
Died. Clara Cook Kellogg, 80, widow of ex-Secretary of State, ex-Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Frank Billings Kellogg; in St. Paul. A popular hostess in Washington and London, she was a tactful, patient woman whose grace often counteracted her husband's impulsive conversation. Kellogg once wrote that Coolidge said he had made him Ambassador as much because of Mrs. Kellogg as Kellogg himself...
...Club. It was Brenda Frazier's season. The late Cholly Knickerbocker ticketed Diana as Personality Deb of the Year, swore she could have outstripped blazing Brenda as Glamor Girl if she had half tried. Diana palled around with Brenda a little, was reported engaged to Anthony Duke, Francis Kellogg, Harry Ellerbee (whom she called Poopsie), Sir William Wrixon-Becher, and a convoy of others, including Actor Bramwell Fletcher. Last summer, yes-she married...