Word: poland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gibson career began at the foot of the foreign service ladder, at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in 1908. It took him ten years to reach Paris. Woodrow Wilson in 1919 made him U.S. Minister to Poland. Calvin Coolidge transferred his ministerial duties to Switzerland and finally, in 1927, elevated him to the rank of U.S. Ambassador at Brussels...
...were faced with outbreaks of malaria all over Europe. Another problem lay in the sleeping sickness prevalent in Africa. Following the treaty settlements England, France, and Belgium agreed on a uniform and cooperative treatment of this difficulty. The Committee has rendered extensive assistance in Esthonia, Lithuania, Czeckoslovakia, Poland, and "Greece: and is now receiving many re quests from South America, particularly to help stamp out leprosy...
...During the interval between meetings the real work is carried on by a small group of nine persons, headed by a member from Poland. The advantageous feature of the Committee is that it can call upon the experts of all nations, just as it asked an Englishman and a Frenchman, specialists on tuberculosis and diseases resulting from dust, to inspect the conditions in the gold mines of South Africa...
...with billions in the balance-the achievements of the League statesmen at Geneva last week were only these: 1) They debated ad infinitum and post-poned to next June for further debate the so-called "minorities question." 2) They applauded announcements by Germany's fat Dr. Stresemann and Poland's lean August Zaleski that these nations are now "ready" to ratify the international protocol prohibiting employment of poison gas and bacteria as war weapons...
...Hill 1T.S., J. H. Lane '28, graduate secretary of the Phillips Brooks House, and D. P. Tucker ocC leave today at 1 o'clock for Poland Springs, Maine where they will participate in the Fifth Annual Poland Springs Congress sponsored by the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. for the colleges of eastern New England. Dr. Charles W. Gilkey, dean of the chapel at the University of Chicago, will be leader of the conference which will discuss the general theme: "The distinction, real or supposed, between religion, ethics, and social solidarity...