Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Midwest: Illinois v. Michigan at Urbana; Missouri v. Nebraska at Columbia; Ohio State v. Indiana at Columbus; Wisconsin v. Iowa at Madison...
East: Cornell v. Columbia at Ithaca; Harvard v. Florida at Cambridge; Pennsylvania v. Navy at Philadelphia; Pittsburgh v. Ohio State at Pittsburgh; Princeton v. Chicago at Princeton; Army v. South Dakota at West Point; Yale v. Dartmouth at New Haven...
...appointing an ambassador, it is customary for the State Department to select a candidate who is persona grata to the government of the country concerned. When, last week, the U. S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Manhattan's Harry Frank Guggenheim as Ambassador to Cuba, the question of acceptability was quite ideally met. Mr. Guggenheim is well acquainted with Cuban problems. Cuban people. But there were more than personal reasons for his appointment having been welcome to "El Gallo" (The Rooster). President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba. For the very fact that Mr. Guggenheim and not a more...
...situation which had held up Mr. Guggenheim's confirmation while Secretary of State Stimson hurriedly consulted with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee resulted partly from an anti-Machado resolution received by the Senate and partly from a series of suits for damages brought against the Cuban government by U. S. citizens. High were the crimes and misdemeanors of "El Gallo" as recited by the aggrieved petitioners. He had violated the Cuban constitution. He had illegally manipulated the rich national lottery. His administration had been guilty of extravagance, fraud, political coercion, assassination. Furthermore, he had trampled upon the rights...
Nevertheless, it was no sinecure that the new ambassador was taking over. Even discounting the anti-Machado petition as representing a volatile temperament influenced by a political and personal bias, there still remained the injured U. S. citizens and their grievances against the Cuban state. The five chief cases, each christened for its claimant...