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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presently Mr. Hoover shook the hand of British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard and of Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, poet and Principal Private Secretary to James Ramsay MacDonald (and to Prime Minister Baldwin before him). Poet-Secretary Vansittart had just come to pay respects, anticipating his chief's proposed visit next month...
...little has the public heard of tourists returning from abroad who fail to declare the full value of their purchases, hoping to cheat the Government of its legal customs dues. Next to nothing has the public heard of the Government mulcting tourists of from 30% to 40% more in tariff duties than is legally collectible. Recently persons not so ignorant of the law as the average tourist began to make in- quiries. Last week, Customs officials publicly admitted that tourists have for years paid millions of dollars more in tariff duties than the law authorizes. "Ah," said cynics, "the shoes...
...Next, fearing that he would leave his wealth to Perry Pickle, the stepchild of Mrs. Trunnion's sister-in-law, Mrs. Trunnion robbed the Commodore and assured him that any legal steps he might make she would frustrate by having him locked up as a lunatic...
...crippled Chancellor had spoken into the microphone from his easy chair at the Chancellor's official residence, No. 10 Downing Street. He knew that all Belgium read his words next day, yet he called the distinguished Prime Minister of that friendly state "poor Jaspar."* Careless of affront to Japan, he spoke of Dr. Mine- ichira Adachi, Chief of the Japanese Delegation, as "the quiet, plaintive Adachi." The whole speech bristled with that same humoring superiority?that air of considering other statesmen mere children? which infuriated the Latin statesmen at The Hague to the point of tantrums and tears...
...Opined Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard next day: "So long as the U. S. persists in its policy of collecting War Debts ... the hope that the World War may become nothing more than an evil memory . . . must remain an unfulfilled and merely pious wish...