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...bankrupt Insull Utility Investments-a connection which would help no public career before a catawauling Senate. Another outstanding possibility for Secretary of State is Newton Diehl Baker. But Mr. Baker's friends say he is reluctant to return to public life. A third, viewed expectantly by European statesmen who have dealt with him, is Norman Hezekiah Davis...
...reached the downward path that leads to the front of Widener. Nothing unusual in that, but it did look as though there was to be a traffic congestion. Straight as two arrows sped the eagerly pressing riders, straight into the center of the dignity of Harvard's elder statesmen...
...People are my hobby," continued McIntyre. "They are the stuff from which news is made. People do many things under many different circumstances. There seldom passes a day in which someone doesn't do something out of the ordinary. It is not the kings and statesmen that make the best news, but it is the common person of the street. The newsboy who stands at the entrance to A1 Smith's building, the peddlers of the lower East Side, the herd that wanders through the Aquarium daily, the captains of the river tugs, and the whistling traffic...
...this. It is the old story of a Germany hopelessly tangled in a mass of debts and on the verge of bankruptcy. Everyone knows that Germany is unable to pay in full. As a matter of fact by the Lausanne agreement which cut reparations almost to zero the statesmen of the Western World, if not its parliaments, admitted Germany could pay no more...
...Kingdom's Mosul oil through their ably drawn contracts. Last week. however, Mother Briton clucked loudly at Geneva, announced that Irak has officially hatched into an "Independent Kingdom." To certify Irak's independence Irak was made a member state of the League of Nations and batches of League statesmen made speeches...