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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME meant no offense. The item in question was a report of a speech which Clarence Darrow delivered to Philadelphia Negroes...
...Ambassador (to Belgium) Hugh S. Gibson just been appointed to head the U. S. delegation to the approaching Geneva Arms conference? Is not Mr. Gibson eminently a "career man"? Both England and Japan have appointed "able negotiators of first authority" to attend the Conference. The very question discussed generally by Mr. Dawes had been discussed specifically with regard to Mr. Gibson for weeks preceding his appointment. It had been rumored that Charles Evans Hughes had been asked, had refused, to take the post...
...view of these circumstances, had not Vice President Dawes selected rather an inopportune time to debate career men v. special emissaries? This question, impertinent, found no official answer...
...question has not been exactly pressing for two reasons: 1) The U. S. Congress has not ratified the accord, but will have to take the whole matter up again because this measure passed only the House (TIME, June 14, 1926) but not the Senate. 2) Premier Poincare has been so busy rescuing France from her financial slough of last year, doubling the value of the franc, and tentatively stabilizing it, that no one seriously expected him to make of his debt-funding plans anything but a dark state secret until stability was achieved. Now the question of ratification has begun...
...says, that I will have to bear the expenses of his proceedings. I am within my right and I shall not move! I am ready for anything and will do whatever circumstances or my fancy dictate. Tell that to the Prosecutor General. . . . With me" this is a question of Honor. I owe it to the memory of my son. No one has any finer cause than mine...