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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was only one of three items on the agenda for the Conference, others being "Constitutional Questions" and "Trade, Shipping, and Air Communications." Mr. Baldwin, Imperial Conferences being the delicate things they are, had to bide his time. First Canada's King wanted to know what Great Britain intended to do about the preferential trade agreements signed between the Dominions and the mother country at the Imperial Conference at Ottawa in 1932. Since then Canada has signed a reciprocal trade treaty with the U. S. and Secretary Hull has been pressing Stanley Baldwin with requests for a reciprocal treaty...
...stood the item's sponsor, Oklahoma's handsome white-crested Elmer Thomas, to explain that the cattle were one of the last herds of longhorns left in the U. S. "These cattle are friends of mine," cried he. "I have been down to see them. I know them...
...Methodist institution, opened in 1914 on Washington's northwest side, American University has ever since been trying to live up to its imposing name. To most Washingtonians it is merely a trim collection of white buildings. Students of the social sciences know and respect its School of Public Affairs and its earnest Graduate School. To diplomatic Washington, however, American University is notable as the school where Ellery Cory Stowell teaches international...
Pressed for an explanation, blond, bouncing Dean Luther observed: "You know how it is-'in the spring a young man's fancy,' etc. That ruling was a warning to a few groups, intended to break up couples. I considered calling it back and making some changes in the wording, but decided to let it go through...
...reptile house, calmly fondled it as it coiled about her neck. "It never occurred to me to be afraid of them," shrugged she. who as a girl visited Walter Damrosch (see p. 47) at Bar Harbor with a green snake, Emily Spinach. Impressed, said Keeper Joseph A. Stephan: "Snakes know people who understand them. Mrs. Longworth does. The snake acted as if it were in the hands of an old friend...