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Cheerily independent, President Roosevelt queried Secretary Hull as to whether a ten-day recess of the Conference might do some good. By this time Conference stenographers and pages had been warned by the Secretariat that their jobs might not outlast the week. Mr. Hull made clear that a brief adjournment would not do. The Conference must either close up tight or go definitely on. The President, still without consulting his Brain Trust, began to draft in the White House a second message to the Conference. Amid his labors he called up Secretary Hull for an extra secret talk. In London...
...Capitol to advise the President on signing last minute bills. The President waited at the White House-and waited and waited-for the Senate's bad temper to simmer down. At 10:30 p. m. Senator Robinson telephoned again, got the President's consent to a recess until Monday. Once the session went over into a new week, it became anybody's race...
...Press gave chase in a hysterical pack. More than a chase, it was a field day. Here at last was J. P. Morgan where the Press could get at him. Hearings were delayed while cameramen swarmed around him undeterred. Feature writers eyed his every move, ambushed him during every recess. All were astonished by his amiable submission, in which he admittedly had been coached by his counsel. John William Davis, and by Partner Thomas W. Lamont. onetime newsman...
...father's life recalls the respect that Congress paid him after his death. You will find nothing loftier in our annals. The three-day recess enabled his fellows to set down their admiration for his single-handed fight against American Imperialism. They felt the prophetic verity of his warning of the train of troubles that "would follow our acquisition of the Philippines. They responded to the memory of the courage of the lone individual who faced the flaming patriotism of Congress and country in the grip of Spanish War victory frenzy, who faced it to the end and with...
...Judge commands a recess for three days to allow all to recover their voices. Then once again the court convenes, and 32 veniremen having been dismissed (19 for cause, 13 by peremptory challenges), the jury is complete. The jury consists of a hotel manager, a clerk, a publisher, a traffic manager, a contractor from The Bronx, etc. One of them is an architect hailing from Groton, Yale, and the Beaux-Arts, another a Parkavian civil engineer. The vital first act is over. If Mr. Mitchell is convicted it will not be by the prejudices of a proletarian jury...