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...money made its first appearance. Also Japan made a bow to U. S. public opinion by appointing as an "adviser" to the Manchoukuo Government enterprising U. S. Citizen George Bronson Rea. "He is the publisher of The Far Eastern Review of Shanghai," remarked the Associated Press, "and is a stanch defender of Japan's policy in Manchuria...
Italy and 25 Minor Nations stood squarely behind the President and only the fact that the Conference had been hastily adjourned over the week-end prevented the 25 little fellows from making pro-Hoover speeches. On the other hand Poland (stanch ally of France) was frankly and flatly anti-Hoover, more so than Premier Herriot himself. Throughout Europe a belief grew (and U. S. State Department denials did not down it) that President Hoover was secretly offering a "gentleman's agreement" to the Great Powers...
...Sugarman Horace Havemeyer who has given the Metropolitan many a Degas, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes. Modernism might have been doomed but for Committeeman Cornelius Bliss, a recent appointee,* brother and estate executor of the late Lizzie Bliss, benefactor of the Museum of Art. Conscientious, publicity shy, Cornelius Bliss is stanch for his late sister's modern art. When Curator Burroughs presented his nine selections to the Committee, Committeemen Gilbert and Root were absent. The Committee passed nine pictures on to the Board of Trustees, who directed Curator Burroughs to buy them. Fame had come to the living...
...returned to their seats, up stood Lawritz Bernard Sandblast, Oregon delegate, to place Dr. Joseph France of Maryland in nomination. Oregon's preferential primary directed Mr. Sandblast to do this. Just then the amplifying system completely broke down, but here, was what he was supposed to have said: "This stanch Republican [Dr. France] occupies a unique position in our national life. At times he has been called too radical, at others too conservative. He belongs neither to the right wing of greed nor to the left wing of license. He is as radical as the Declaration of Independence...
...office boy in Washburn Crosby Co., three years later became its youngest salesman. He was sales manager and a director of the company when he left to go with Commander-Larabee. He is credited with having sold more flour than any man in the U. S. A stanch Democrat, he recently offered to wager $1,000 he could name every plank to be adopted at the convention...