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...President chose to speak in a roundabout way to the Government of Mexico. Recently the Mexican Congress passed land laws which are believed to threaten American property rights in Mexico as guaranteed by existing treaties. President Calles however has not yet approved the bill. To correspondents assembled at the White House, President Coolidge intimated that of course the U. S. assumes that Mexico will live up to her treaties...
...Roundabout and cunning proceedings are not to the liking of Secretary of State Hughes or myself. Mussolini, too, goes straight to the point and it is amazing the amount of business he transacts in an hour...
...business men in the automobile centers. But perhaps it is more a question of geography. The London-Paris air services are busy because they enable passengers to avoid a nasty Channel crossing. Detroit to Cleveland by air is only 100 miles, while the rail journey is long and roundabout and a, lake steamer takes all day. Moreover, these two cities are very closely linked in business and industry, while New York to Atlantic City is a most pleasant and rapid railway journey, which any one on pleasure bent might well prefer...
...roundabout way came information of another important American's opinion of prohibition. In London was published a book, The Law of the Kinsmen, by Lord Shaw of Dunfermline, consisting of addresses made in this country and articles which appeared in England. The work has a preface by William Howard Taft, in which, among other things, the Chief Justice spoke of law enforcement in America, particularly with respect to prohibition...
...Athletic Association; their equipment and field of action controlled by the Department of Physical Education. That the two systems should often conflict is inevitable. Orders in one department have to be countermanded by the other and frequently loss of time and waste of energy result from the roundabout process of procuring and transferring equipment...