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...What controversy ensued between the United States and Panama at the Pan-American economic conference...
...State Frank Billings Kellogg. The boy from Potsdam, N. Y., and the St. Paul lawyer of national prestige- are now merged into the benign peace pact man, famed from Potsdam, Germany, to Rochester, Minn., where Mrs. Kellogg used to be shy Miss Clara Cook. As 20 nations signed two Pan-American peace pacts under the chairmanship of Secretary Kellogg (see INTERNATIONAL), and as the U. S. Senate seemed disposed to ratify the Kellogg-Briand pact (see SENATE), it could be fairly said that last week Frank Billings Kellogg rode the crest. Therefore, this week is an appropriate time to stroll...
...nations. Mother can wheedle, if little Miss Venezuela won't behave about her oil. Father can cough or threaten, if Master Bolivia kicks under the table again at Master Paraguay. Fortunately for the peace of the Americas, just such a family table stands perpetually in the white marble Pan-American Building, at Washington; and there, last week, mother and father dished up a piping dinner for all 20 republics. Of course the "family party" was really the Pan-American Conference on Arbitration and Conciliation (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.). At mother's end of the table sat Secretary of State...
Thus, melodiously, did the Ward Line christen the ships of the profitable Havana trade. Year after year, they have plied comfortably and euphoniously between Cuba and New York, carrying many a lodge brother, Greek-letter man, Pan-American conferee and others to whom Havana has offered, since 1919, increasingly attractive facilities for convivial conventions...
When this pompous comedy had been played through, the Pan-American parley swiftly appointed a committee of five to investigate the original battle at Fort Vanguardia (TIME...