Word: platt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful lecturer to women's clubs, Pup Churchill again succeeded last week. Not winning Wavertree himself, he nevertheless polled 10,575 ballots, thus knifing Conservative James Platt who polled 13,771, and throwing the victory to Laborite J. J. Clearn...
International. Too busy at home to give much attention to foreign policy the Man of the Year nonetheless concluded a new treaty with Cuba which wiped out the Platt Amendment, put U. S. relations with that country on a new basis, improved relations with all Latin-America. From Congress he got power to make reciprocal tariff agreements to promote foreign trade. But up to last week only one such agreement (with Cuba) had been signed. In November U. S. exports were worth $195,000,000 (devalued dollars), up $11,000,000 from a year earlier, although, calculated in old gold...
...broke with Dictator Machado and on his overthrow in 1933 became successively Ambassador to the U. S.. Secretary of State. Provisional President, and Ambassador to the U. S. Last May he won a life-long fight when he became Cuba's sole signatory to the abrogation of the Platt Amendment...
...divorce. We may want a divorce but there are any number of things to consider. It's easy to start out-but rather hard to carry through." Mrs. Dall detrained at Truckee, Calif. Thence she, her children, a Negro maid, three watchful Secret Service men, and Lawyer Samuel Platt who served Elliott Roosevelt a year ago, drove away in motor cars at 60 m.p.h. to escape trailing newshawks. In half an hour she arrived at Lake Tahoe and entered the seven-room cottage, on the Nevada shore, which she had rented for her six-week residence in Nevada. Said...
...confused with his more famed colleague, Senator Thomas C. (''Me Too") Platt of New York...