Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Japan the Peacemaker. Almost irrelevant to the real Chinese situation last week were screeching headlines about appeals to President Hoover and the League of Nations by Nationalist Foreign Minister C. T. Wang (Yale, 1911). In his own capital Mr. Wang was credited with having utterly bungled the Chino-Russian imbroglio. The Shanghai Council of the Nationalist Party passed a resolution of censure demanding his resignation, stigmatized him as "a rogue." His one chance lay in shrieking so vociferously about the "red menace" that the great powers would intervene...
Engaged. Mrs. Gladys R. Byfield, one-time wife of Ernest Byfield of Chicago (president of Hotel Sherman); and one Raymond Tartiere of Paris. Four weeks ago Mr. Byfield married Mrs. Katherine Prest Rend of Chicago...
...season, blaming the recent stock market crash. In Manhattan, arose voices to differ with them. Authoritative among such voices was that of Walter N. Kahn, agile, dark president of the American Diamond Cutters Manufacturers Association, envoy from them to the U. S. Senate Finance Committee. Master diamond cutter is Mr. Kahn, able to instruct his many workmen to such good effect that diamonds cleave well, cut well, in trade parlance "run" well for him. Mr. Kahn blamed the unsettled state of the diamond tariff (TIME, Aug. 26). Ably he pointed to the gradual slump in buying since last summer...
...hired two Norwegian tramp steamers and began to import to himself via Bush Terminal tons and tons of bananas from Jamaica. Today twelve steamers dock at the Bush Terminal on an average day, and one-fifth of the freight handled in New York passes through it. With quiet pride Mr. Bush says of his terminal : "I have built, and it is my creation...
...Richard Whitney, vice president of the Exchange, acting as president while E. H. H. Simmons was honeymooning. Whitney qualities praised in the resolution were "courage, resourcefulness, and sound judgment . . . rare qualities of leadership." Oldsters, saying this was the first instance of personal praise by the Committee, wagered Mr. Whitney will be elected president of the Exchange next May. President Simmons, now serving his sixth term, had not desired his last nomination...