Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After he signed the Kellogg Pact, a crashing French salute boomed for Mr. Stimson's predecessor as Secretary of State, Mr. Kellogg; but last week the Leviathan cleared from Cherbourg amid silence, a reminder that although France and Italy signed the more nebulous portions of the Treaty they did not sign its more vital, binding clauses. More than making up for French silence, President Herbert Hoover sent the battleship Texas and four destroyers to blaze a 19-gun salute as the Leviathan neared Manhattan where Police Commissioner Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen greeted the delegates, sped them to Washington...
...second group of debaters, composed of J. M. Swigert '30, F. C. Flechter '32, and D. J. Cooke, Jr. '31, visited Georgetown, Duquesne University, Ohio University, Butler University, and Mount Union College. At Georgetown they debated on the Kellogg Pact, losby a four out of five vote. At Duquesne University, speaking on the subject of "Limiting the Enrollment in Colleges to those who show that they are suitably equipped to enter," the Crimson forces won by a unanimous vote. In the debate at Butler, the subject of which was the Harvard Debating Council Plan, the audience was asked to vote...
...second team will debate at Georgetown University, Ohio University, Butler University, Mount Union College, and Duquesne University. The speakers, J. M. Swigert '30, F. C. Fiechter '32, and D. I. Cooke Jr. '31, will argue 'That four years in college are four years wasted," "That the Kellogg pact is a sound basis for the foreign policy of the United States," and 'That present national advertising is harmful...
...ready to face these changes when he returned to Chicago. He had left short, stocky, moon-faced Jake Guzick, who hides shrewd ability under a spunkless whine, in charge of the Capone gang. Guzick would make his "business report." Capone would do whatever reorganizing was necessary. The peace pact negotiated at Atlantic City was still in force. Such gang killings as had occurred were sporadic personal affairs, no part of the wholesale slaughter committed by organized under-worldlings...
Frenchmen were worried. It was already admitted that Britain and the U.S. had a tentative agreement establishing parity The Japanese agreement made a sure foundation for a three-power-pact from which France might be omitted unless she adopted a more conciliatory attitude...