Word: leman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondent's recent sojourn on the shores of Lake Leman was by no means his first experience in international affairs. Graduating from Montana State in 1918, he served in France with an engineers' unit and later in the Intelligence Service. With Armistice he was attached to Wison's staff...
...only Blue Book ever published in Britain to net a profit. Second member of the Commission was another son of a Scottish parson, Sir Charles Addis, onetime director of the Bank of England. These two Scotsmen Premier Bennett balanced with two Canadian bankers, Sir William Thomas White and Beaudry Leman. To give Western Canada a voice he threw in Premier John Edward Brownlee of the Province of Alberta. For two months the Commissioners have inched over the wide Canadian landscape from bank to bank (TIME, Aug. 28). Last week, after the two Scotsmen had gotten back to London for congratulation...
...Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, proud father of six sons and seven daughters. Fortnight ago the two Commissioners arrived in Ottawa with their ladies, met the three Canadians appointed as their colleagues: Sir William Thomas White, vice president of Canadian Bank of Commerce, Canada's Wartime Finance Minister; Beaudry Leman, general manager of Banque Canadienne Nationale; and Premier John Edward Brownlee of Alberta (named to give Western Canada a voice). After a first meeting in Ottawa the Commission shuttled straight to the Pacific Coast, began a series of hearings which will bring it back city by city from Vancouver...
...insertion of the Hoover Plan. At this juncture a huge "silver" (aluminum) seaplane, roaring up from Rome, appeared over Geneva. The Delegates, as they voted down the Russian proposals, could see out of the windows of the Conference Palace the great silver bird as it settled down on Lac Leman...
Hoover Plan. Meanwhile at Geneva, at the far end of Lac Leman, the Disarmament Conference and its committees adjourned last week, to meet again after "private conversations" have taken place between the Great Powers concerned. A plan, said to have been devised by President Hoover last January and held in reserve until last week was submitted to the chief delegates by U. S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh Simons Gibson. Simple, the Hoover plan is this: Let each nation determine for itself and announce to the Conference what weapons & effectives it needs for purposes of maintaining peace & order within...