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...Governor of the Reichsbank, rose for Germany (which went through the world's worst inflation) to snap, with obvious reference to the U. S., "Some countries have deliberately abandoned stable currency, trying to influence economic conditions by monetary experiments. However deeply we regret this, we cannot deny a sovereign state the right to do what it likes...
...President Hoover sent a special diplomatic delegation to Addis Ababa for the coronation of Emperor Haile Selassie I, King of Kings of Ethiopia, the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God, Light of the World. Last week the Abyssinian sovereign royally returned the courtesy when his mahogany-colored son-in-law, Ras (Prince) Desta Demtu arrived in Washington in all his African splendor. Told off to escort him was the State Department's Jefferson Patterson. Only with the greatest difficulty had an Ethiopian flag (green, yellow, red) been dug up to deck the Mayflower Hotel, the Ethiopian national anthem...
...sovereign states which owed $144,000,000 to the U. S. on June 15 last week only small, green, watery Finland, self-styled ''Land of 40,000 Lakes," showed sufficient character to pay her War debt in full...
...listen. ''Everybody ought to drink more rum," advised Delegate Mayard, "and they ought to eat more bananas." Word that the King-Emperor was rising in the Conference lift caused 800 delegates, experts and correspondents to scramble to their feet. Stiff and silent to honor His Majesty, benign sovereign of one-quarter of all mankind, stood white chief delegates in cutaways, white-robed Indians, the gaily turbaned Hejaz delegate and the head of only one state, President Schulthess of Switzerland. George V, who had driven straight in from Windsor Castle, sprang an immediate surprise. Instead of speaking straight English...
University of Pittsburgh Arthur Vining Davis .... Sc.D. President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania ... LL.D. President Josiah Kirby Lilly of Eli Lilly & Co. (chemicals) .... LL.D. Dr. Franklin H. Martin, Chicago surgeon .... LL.D...