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...Another matter President Hoover settled last week was his Spring speaking schedule which called for eight addresses and excursions into four states. In Washington he would address the American Red Cross (April 13), the Pan-American Union (April 14), the International Chamber of Commerce (May 4), the 50th anniversary of the Red Cross (May 21). He will go to Valley Forge for his Memorial Day address. The Indiana Republican Editors Association will hear him at Indianapolis June 15. The next day he will review the Grand Army of the Republic at Columbus, Ohio and, at last, dedicate the Harding memorial...
George Benjamin Luks of Manhattan, originally of Williamsport, Pa., was twice in the news last week. In Baltimore, as judge of a Pan-American exhibition of paintings opened with unction by Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson as "an outstanding event in the history of Pan-American cultural relations," he helped to award the $1,000 first prize to Alfredo Guttero of Argentina for a formalized, thick-necked Madonna somewhat reminiscent of the woodcuts of Britain's Eric Gill. The award moved Baltimore Catholics to indignant frenzy. Thundered the Catholic Review...
...Ratified: 1) a Hague convention modifying the rules of the International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property: 2) a Pan-American pact for protection of trademarks and commerce. ¶ Confirmed the nominations of Joshua Reuben Clark to be Ambassador to Mexico, of Hoffman Philip to be Minister to Norway, of Nicholas Roosevelt to be Minister to Hungary, of Joshua Butler Wright to be Minister to Uruguay, of Charles Edwin Mitchell to be Minister Resident in Liberia. ¶ Adjourned until...
...Pan-American Airways and New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Lines, September...
Tucked away in the protocol of revision to which Cuba objects is a clause providing that hereafter World Court judges shall spend their whole time at The Hague. This displeases Cuba's World Court bencher, famed Judge Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante, recent President of the Pan-American Congress (TIME, Jan. 16 & Feb. 27, 1928). Trading on his international prestige, on his close friendship with Cuban Dictator-President Gerardo Machado, the learned judge makes a good thing of his "vacations" in Havana. The fees of his law firm swell yearly. Bluntly, this potent Cuban feels that all Hague and no play...