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...policy of the Hoover administration. ... It was your personal fate through lack of understanding of monetary forces to be the central figure in the world's greatest, most inexcusable and most costly tragedy of financial leadership. I ask by what right do you now presume to initiate even a partial return to your policies which have been tested and proved so ruinous...
...signalize the partial removal of New York Central freight tracks from Manhattan's cluttered west side and the completion of a vast freight station in Lower Manhattan, President Frederick E, Williamson of the New York Central took 1,500 Manhattan businessmen, financiers and politicians over the route. At one point where their special train was going at only 5 m.p.h., the hose of the air brakes broke and stopped the train instanter. President Williamson's chair leg broke, spilling him on the floor. William Kissam Vanderbilt landed on his nose. Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times...
Very cross was everyone with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou last week. Fortnight ago he did his level best to bring the dying Disarmament Conference to a quick and painless end by refusing to consider any plan that would allow Germany even partial disarmament, by refusing to admit Germany's reentrance to the Conference until French security had been guaranteed. The President of the Conference, "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, mildest of men, looked straight at France's chief spokesman last week and snapped...
Against the Simon plan of partial rearmament for Germany and disarmament for the rest of the world, Louis Barthou held out vigorously for Benito Mussolini's plan to freeze armaments at the status...
Casualties of the solemn military field mass: 1,800 complete or partial thermic prostrations, of whom nine were nuns, one a friar, one a priest...