Word: panning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first real outpopping of honest, controversial opinion, at the Sixth Pan-American Conference, came last week, in Havana, as the delegates were about to adjourn their stale and stuffy sittings...
...quiet, routine, rather lonely week for President Coolidge. Mrs. Coolidge was recovering from a cold-nothing serious, but the lumbago that went with it made her feel like not going anywhere. The President went to a dinner given by Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work in the Pan-American Union building-the first dinner "out" (except for stag affairs) that he had attended without his wife since going to Washington as Vice President in 1921. Mr. & Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. were there, among several dozen others. Mrs. Rockefeller fancies Japanese art, about which the President knows little. For entertainment...
...Conference, Seiior Pueyrredon has unalterably insisted it should make some definite pronouncement against high tariff barriers-that is to say, against high U. S. tariffs. By hard, driving diplomacy he got such a pronouncement tentatively recognized for insertion into the preamble of a stuffed-shirt treaty draft reorganizing the Pan-American Union.-Last week U. S. pressure resulted in the striking out of Pueyr-redon's preamble clause. From Buenos Aires came, allegedly, instructions that he should knuckle under and sign the treaty draft...
...Argentine presidential election scheduled for this spring, Senor Pueyrredon had made the grandest of grandstand plays to convince the electorate that he alone is of sufficiently tough presidential timber to stand up for Argentina, even against the U. S. With Outpopper Pueyrredon thus self-eliminated, the treaty reorganizing the Pan-American Union was submitted in innocuous form to the plenary session of the Conference...
...almost non-existent were the accomplishments of the Conference that Mr. Hughes pointed out as its greatest specific achievement the recommendation, adopted last week, that a Pan-American Arbitration Conference shall meet in Washington within a year. This will be the scene of Olympic games dedicated to the drawing up of a convention to "adopt obligatory arbitration . . . with the minimum exceptions." Exaggerating as only a great statesman can, Mr. Hughes described the promulgation of this recommendation as marking "the happiest day of my life...