Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stumping about the conference painfully on his two rubber-tipped canes, the Rt. Hon. Snowden seemed a puny match for his Latin opponents: the delegations of France, Belgium and Italy, marshaled by doughty French Prime Minister Aristide Briand. It was a queer tussle. M. Briand is at least three times as great in girth as the frail Yorkshireman, and nine years his senior in statecraft. The Latins, supported by Japan and with Germany's blocky Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann neutral, were in solid phalanx pressing for adoption of the Young Plan unchanged. They were satisfied with the size...
...hope that M. Cheron will not consider me discourteous," flashed Chancellor Snowden. "but I do not accept the accuracy of a single one of his figures. I could refute every construction he has placed on his figures. . . . His interpretation of the Balfour Note is grotesque and ridiculous...
...Foul!" Flustered and anxious to avoid a scene, the conference interpreter did not translate into French the insult to M. Cheron?and M. Cheron understands no English. Not until Mr. Snowden was safely away did the Frenchman's bushy white beard begin to bristle. Colleagues had told him what had been said. M. Cheron rushed to the acting chairman of the session, Belgium's Baron Houtart, demanded that he obtain an apology. At Mr. Snowden's hotel, Baron Houtart had to wait some six hours before the Chancellor returned from his outing. Then with a sardonic grin, Philip Snowden wrote...
Round Four. By now, of course, negotiations had reached total deadlock. The Latin delegations?maneuvered by M. Briand who himself spoke seldom?had dodged the Snowden attack by treating it as bluff. Such a wild man, they indicated, could not be speaking for British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, that sane and steady Scot. The full staggering power of Chancellor Snowden's punches was not felt until Mr. MacDonald officially declared: "In view of the statements so widely read on the Continent that Mr. Snowden is bluffing, I want to make it perfectly clear that the claims he is making...
...buttoned shooting spats, filled shooting flasks and rode on shaggy Highland ponies to the moors last week, included: Banker John Pierpont Morgan at Gannochy, Forfarshire; Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay at Glentromie; Engineer and Fly-fisherman Edward R. Hewitt, grandson of Philanthropist Peter Cooper, at BalmakeIlly; Philadelphia Socialite Clarence M. Clark at Murthly Castle; General John Joseph Pershing, crack shot, set out for a party at a spot he declined to name...