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...President Herbert Hoover of the U. S. who opened the statesmen's chess game at Geneva, last week, by advancing a sprightly pawn, Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium. The civilized world attended while dapper Mr. Gibson addressed the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission as follows: "It has recently been my privilege to discuss the general problem of disarmament at considerable length with President Hoover. I am in a position to realize, perhaps as well as anyone, how earnestly he feels that the pact for the renunciation of war opens for us an unprecedented opportunity for advancing...
...started at 10 p. m., as I had determined to use the moon and climb all night. . . . We dispensed with a lantern, Hans helping me admirably, with knee and shoulder, and guiding my metal peg to its foothold with the precision of a chess player moving a pawn. We . . . arrived upon the summit at 7:30 a. m. . . . Then came the long terrors of the grim descent-always worse than the ascent for the legless man ... it was over at last...
Other banks, of course, will follow. But none yet accommodates the needy borrower in every respect. If he has no willing friends to countersign his note to a "Morris Plan" (7%) or "National City-Marine Trust Plan" (6%) bank, he must pawn his household goods, automobile or other personal possessions with whatever moneylender he can wheedle, at the highest rate the lender dares command. Nor is it easy to get endorsers, since persons with sufficient money sense to become acceptable guarantors are not promiscuous with their signatures...
...moving pictures, Charlie Chaplin in "The Pawn Shop" and a Canadian skiing picture, will be shown at 7.15 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Main Living Room of the Union...
...part hold governmental posts. The natives are composed of 17 different tribes. It is very surprising, he said, that they have not arrived at a greater degree of civilization: although it is true that they are very much opposed. It is not unusual for a man in debt to pawn one or even more than one of his wives...