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...allowed the whole conference to be postponed for several months in order not to interfere with Dr. Saavedra's recent appearances at Geneva, and in diplomatic negotiations over the Spanish revolt. Mr. Hull, on the eve of his arrival in Buenos Aires, announced that Dr. Saavedra's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in the Chaco War was "most worthily bestowed in recognition of Mr. Saavedra Lamas's outstanding service to peace not only in recent months but in many years past. It will give me great pleasure to extend felicitations...
...next meeting of the Council will be held on Thursday, November 12, at 7:30 o'clock in University Hall. It is expected that at that time the Council will be in receipt of some answer to the parietal rule request of yesterday and that this problem will again be taken...
...receipt of a prospectus from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Celebration Committee advising of the sale of 100,000 one-half dollar coins specially coined to commemorate the opening of the new bridge. I am to be permitted to purchase a limited number of these coins at the very special price of $1.65 each, the premiums on the coins to be used to defray part of the expenses of the celebration...
...sell military planes disguised as commercial types to U. S. S. R. Young Roosevelt was to form a company which was to receive a $25,000 retaining fee from Fokker. Son Elliott personally was handed four $1,000 and two $500 bills as a down payment and gave a receipt for them. The 50 planes which it hoped to sell Russia were to be priced to yield $20,000 profit apiece, half of which was to go to Elliott or his firm. Salesman Roosevelt showed a model of the planes (Lockheed "Electras" modified for easy conversion to military...
...associates were to receive an interest estimated at $750,000 per year, because at the time we were dealing I was warned to expect such denials if there was any leak concerning our association. ... I paid that $5,000 cash to Elliott Roosevelt . . . and I still hold his receipt for the money...