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With the possible exception of Herbert Hoover who became famed for other things, John Hays Hammond was the world's most famed mining engineer. From early youth he was familiar with horses, guns and gold mining. He mined gold with Cecil Rhodes, became an intimate of rulers and statesmen, a contented and hale old man in his last years. But his life once hung by a thread when, after the failure of the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal, Hammond was sentenced to death by the Boers for conspiracy. The sentence was commuted and he got off with a fine...
...piece of China as large as Texas. After touring about Peiping, optimistic Japanese Colonel Takeo Imai, the Japanese Resident, crowed: "Everything is brightness itself! Not a single Chinese soldier remains in Peiping." Japan's Domei news agency added that "a stream of would-be-constructive Chinese statesmen is pouring into the offices of the Japanese Army's Special Service Mission" -i.e., offering themselves as prospective cabinet ministers should North China presently be organized by the Japanese into "another...
...when Minister Gordon was dispatched south: "When the Haitians get to know George, they'll think we have sent them back the United States Marines." Matter of fact, deeply cultured Mr. Gordon was astonished and charmed by the erudite French culture he found typical of many mulatto statesmen in Haiti, and it was fun for diminutive Mrs. Gordon to appear at a Haitian ball one night with dashing Dictator Trujillo of the nearby Dominican Republic, although often enough her partner was Haiti's humdrum, dusky President Vincent...
...editorial last week observed, "side-wheelers and side-whiskers go together in the memory." Thousands of New England newlyweds and not-yet-weds got their first breathless glimpse of Manhattan from the deck of a Fall River queen, occasional suicides bought tickets and jumped overboard, U. S. Presidents and statesmen from abroad enjoyed the luxury of travel on Long Island Sound and well-dressed financiers on board were mistaken for sports and gamblers by sports and gamblers. A great show for ordinary passengers and dock gawpers was the splendorous debarkation of socialities at Newport...
...Washington when the politicians started and it continued, save for a few solemn moments in Little Rock, until the train pulled again into Washington's Union Station three days later. Every compartment where two or three politicians were gathered together was a caucus room. In every corridor statesmen buttonholed one another, making hay while the wheels clicked. Messrs. Keenan, Farley and West, the New Deal's top-flight liaison men, lobbied from dawn to dusk...