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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rankin of Mississippi asked for a useless roll-call. Irritated, the usually suave, immaculate Ogden Mills walked across to Mr. Rankin, pointed out that a delay would prevent his delegation (New York) from getting home for Easter. The Mississippian was obdurate, sniffy. Flashed Ogden Mills: "Its a damn mean thing to hold 20 men here!" Back came the retort: "Get over on your own side. You have no right here. You can't insult me in that manner. . . you dirty, contemptible scoundrel!" Fist?swinging arms?whites of eyes? . . . Members rushed to separate the pair. After several minutes order was regained...
...extreme concern to the Court-adherent nations. That reservation demands, as a condition of U. S. adherence, that the Court shall not render any advisory opinion affecting any question in which the U. S. has an interest unless the U. S. consents. "What does that mean?" cry European diplomats. "What authority is to decide whether a given question is one in which the U. S. has an interest? Does the U. S. claim the right to make this decision herself? If so, what question can possibly come up in which the U. S. might not claim to have an interest...
...what I have said I don't mean to imply that Germany was entirely controlled by motives of altruism, and was the innocent victim of foreign machinations. Nor do I believe that she would not have done precisely the same thing that France and Russia did, if she had been in their positions. In fact earlier in the year 1914 when Germany thought she could count on the aid of Italy, and had high hopes of England's remaining neutral, she was not at all adverse to the possibility of a European war. She did not, however...
...condition: that you tell me just why I met so many people with cameras and kodaks and the urge to use them. Before I had gone two blocks I felt like the man in the moving picture who wanted to find someone in a Ford. Fords--I mean cameras, were everywhere. Little girls tripped by with Brownie No. A's under Easter sleeves. And I saw an old man, Emeritus Professor of Photography perhaps, lugging along a huge thing that I took to be a moving picture machine. It was all beyond me. I gave up in despair and counted...
...work or Dean Edgell's on the Early Renaseence in France has the greater attraction. Anyone who wishes to walk with me can give his name and address to the Society for the Prevention of Peregrinating Pipe-ophuls and he will receive more than he has given--which will mean something if you read something into it, the eternal prerogative of scholars and gentlemen...