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...Politically speaking, the Orient is like a jelly-poke one part of it and it all shakes," acknowledged Observer Lodge. But, he suggested, Europe might be benefited if a colonial safety valve were permitted to a certain country with well-known colonizing experience. In short, perhaps it would be wise to sell the Philippines to Germany...
...When M. Moreau came, similar convictions were necessary. In his preservation of the confidence of all the parties, in his resuscitation of their confidence in each other, lay Chairman Young's greatest right to have his name applied to the Reparations plan which was finally adopted. From the Orient, where such things are most highly appreciated came Chairman Young's highest praise, when Delegate Keingo Mori of Japan said: "I could not have conceived, unless I had seen it, of an American having such patience...
...lawyer in the Chicago firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. During the summers she has been premiere danseuse and ballet mistress at Louis Eckstein's Ravinia Opera; in the winters a solo dancer at Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan. Last year she made an eight-months' tour of the Orient. Last week in Manhattan she gave a recital with her own ensemble...
Author Thompson, 42, born at Weeping Water, Neb., turned carpenter, then college professor. In 1923 he visited the Orient on the yacht of the late Edward Wyllis Scripps, founder of the Scripps-Howard newschain, through whom he became Director of the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems...
Scheme No. 2 involved William T. Kemper, for some years Federal Receiver of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad, purchased last year by Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé. Charges against Receiver Kemper were that in 1924 when stockholders thought the situation hopeless, he learned of oil discoveries along the line, of improved operating conditions, of terms in the Santa Fé deal that would make Orient gold convertible notes worth more than face value. Then, according to charges, he bought more than $1,000,000 of these notes at from 10˘ to 25˘ on a dollar, within a few months sold them...