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With nice diplomatic mummery the game was played last week of pretending that British Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson was sending out from London invitations to the great naval powers. He received the Quaker-Scotch text from Washington, dutifully had four fair copies made, despatched them to Washington, Paris, Rome, Tokyo. A further bit of mummery was to delay publication of the U. S. State Department's "acceptance" until a few hours after Scot MacDonald left Washington (see above...
...President & Mrs. Hoover attended the Quaker meeting house on Sunday, for the first time since they began going to their Virginia camp last summer...
Brother George, after he left St. Michael's College in Toronto, worked for Swift & Co. in Chicago, then for Quaker Oats. After a few years he set up as a broker (Morrow & Co.) in the New York Produce and Sugar Exchanges. He took a hand in Gold Dust Corp. of which he is now chairman. He was invited to reorganize American Cotton Oil Co. and did so with such effect that in about five years the value of the company's stock was multi plied 15 times. That was only the begin ning of a career of reorganizations and purchases...
...meeting because I was interested. I would not have believed it possible that this could have happened in Philadelphia, the cradle of liberty. My ancestors came to America over 200 years ago in the cause of freedom and I thought surely we had it in this good old Quaker City...
...nine countries, won many medals. Grizzled Marine campaigners recite many a yarn of his personal bravery. Philadelphia politicians recall with horror the year (1924-25) when, as Director of Public Safety, he endeavored to "mop up" his home town, where he was raised, like Herbert Hoover, in a Quaker family...