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Shortly after an irascible holder of a German bond tried to attach the S. S. Europa one day last January, the Council dispatched Lawyer Laird Bell to the Berlin conference between the German Government and John Foster Dulles, acting as representative of the U. S. banking houses which had issued German bonds. Upshot of that conference was a slight increase in interest payments on German dollar bonds and a promise by the German Government that it would cease treating European creditors more handsomely than U. S. creditors...
...some 1,200 of the 10,000 U. S. Presbyterian ministers belong. Unabashed by the trouncing administered them at the last Presbyterian General Assembly (TIME, June 5), the Fundamentalists proclaimed they are holding their line, unanimously nominated as their candidate for moderator at next Assembly Rev. Dr. Harold S. Laird, 42, pastor of First & Central Presbyterian Church, Wilmington...
Charles Francis Adams, onetime Secretary of the Navy; Newton Diehl Baker, onetime Secretary of War; Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico; Laird Bell Chicago attorney; Hendon Chubb of Manhattan's insurance firm of Chubb & Son; W. L. Clayton, Houston cotton tycoon; John Cowles, Des Moines publisher; Herman Lewis Ekern, onetime Attorney General of Wisconsin; Philip La Follette, onetime Governor of Wisconsin; Mills Bee Lane, Savannah banker; Frank Orren Lowden, onetime Governor of Illinois; Orrin K. McMurray, Dean of the University of California's law school; Roland Sletor Morris, onetime Ambassador to Japan; John C. Traphagen. president...
...Life insurance underwriters meeting in Chicago heard sharp criticism, of the practice of underwriting huge policies (called "jumbos") of $1,000,000 or more. Vice President John Melvin Laird of Connecticut General Life observed that responsible companies have grown shy of underwriting jumbos, that they are a dangerous risk even in normal times. Said he: "Statistics show that the death rate on this type was excessive on issues of the 'boom' decade carried to the anniversary of 1930. The experience includes a period of generally favorable mortality and excludes practically all the Depression. Nevertheless the mortality on persons...
...would produce some sort of successor to Helene Madison, who like Georgia Coleman turned professional after last year's Olympics. Nonetheless, no one except possibly her coach, Jack Scarry, foresaw the exploits of a mop-haired, broad-shouldered girl named Lenore Kight, who (like Josephine McKim and Susan Laird of the 1928 Olympic team) was entered from the Carnegie Library Athletic Club of Homestead...