Word: renews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long face wrinkled into a pleasant smile. He made a stiff little bow, drawling: "Gentlemen - er- er- good morning. I consider it a privilege to be associated with Secretary Hull. We served together for years in the House, a long and delightful association which I am glad to renew." Correspondents did not miss the genuine cordiality between these two grey-heads. In Robert Walton Moore, 74-year-old Virginia bachelor. President Roosevelt had given Secretary Hull, aged 62, an old-time Democratic friend to replace intelli gent but insubordinate Raymond Moley. Assistant Secretary Moore would not clash on policy with...
Rather than draw a new banking act under such circumstances, Canada's conservative Premier Bennett got the Canadian Parliament before the end of its record 7½-month session to renew Canadian bank charters for one year, postpone a new banking law until next session. He promised during the Parliamentary recess to have a special commission study Canada's banking, currency and coinage. Last week that commission was at work in Western Canada...
...Finance and other Cabinet Ministers and heads of central banks. Potent foreign statesmen in London are by no means limited to the official delegates. At least one extra King will be there, lean, white-chinned Feisal of Irak, come to watch proceedings, coach his delegates from the sidelines, and renew his acquaintance with two of Britain's most photographed beauties: Lady Louis Mountbatten and the Marchioness of Milford Haven, who visited his arid kingdom unescorted last November in search of desert thrills. Many a European Premier not present last week is expected to pay at least one visit. Tickets...
...province to a state of beggary. Guam Outrage. Japanese newspapers last week noted a U. S. "outrage." To Guam Island six months ago came 112 Japanese laborers on six-month permits. When the permits ran out Guam's Governor, U. S. Navy Captain Edmund Spence Root, refused to renew them according to Tokyo's Kokumin Shimbnn. Somebody appealed to the Japanese Consul General at Manila. Nevertheless the 112 were deported on Governor Root's "outrageous order...
...deserve that I renew my subscription, considering that your publication was the only one in the U. S. that ignored my autobiography, The Adventures of a Novelist. However, perhaps it is as well as no doubt you would have said something nasty about...