Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London. Up and down the worn State Department steps, back and forth through its high drafty corridors has of late been seen, in leisurely movement, a tall robust man with a British faultlessness of attire. With difficulty newsmen identified him as Arthur Wilson Page, son of the late great Walter Hines Page, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Quickly they jumped to the conclusion- in print-that he was to be the new Assistant Secretary of State, vice Minister Johnson. Wrong though their conclusion was, it served to bring a White House statement: President Hoover...
...forthcoming Naval Disarmament Pact will be based upon the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact; 2) The tentative Anglo-U. S. naval understanding between himself and President Hoover is only a groundwork on which the Naval Pact proper will be built at the Five-Power Conference scheduled to meet in London next January; 3) In the Hoover-MacDonald statement of last month (from which the Prime Minister quoted copiously last week) the two Governments declared, "in a new and reinforced sense," that war between them is "unthinkable," and that mutual "distrusts and suspicions . . . must now cease to influence national policy." At these...
During the past three years much Robeson news has drifted back to the U. S. Paris. Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Budapest all hailed his concerts. Famed were his performances in Show Boat at the Drury Lane Theatre in London. Because he was a Negro, he was asked not to enter the Hotel Savoy dining-room. He handled the situation with grace and dignity. London, where dark-skinned East Indians get every obeisance, buzzed with sympathy...
...Goin' to Tell God all my Troubles" and "Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho." Robeson will remain in the U. S. for two months, will sing at Rutgers College. New Brunswick, N. J.; at Toronto. Pittsburgh. Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Wis., Columbus, Ohio. In January he returns to London to play the Moor in Shakespeare's Othello. If successful, he may return with it to the U. S. Certainly next year he will take a concert tour as far west at California...
...share for their stock; equally obvious was National City's reluctance to buy up the entire Cora Exchange capitalization at a point far above its market value. Therefore National City stockholders refused to ratify the merger, and plop!?back went National City to a size well below London's great Midland Bank. This unfortunate development was followed by many wild rumors, so widespread as to call forth from Mr. Mitchell a denial that he contemplated resignation or that his directors were at odds with him. Rumors had been based partly on the suspicion of a difference of opinion concerning...