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Silas Hardy Strawn, shrewd Chicago lawyer, for more than a year U. S. representative at the Chinese Extraterritoriality Conference in Peking (TIME, Aug. 31, 1925, et seq.) packed his bags last week and prepared to embark for the U. S., as the Conference broke...
...Said Mr. Strawn to newsgatherers...
...delegation is headed by Silas H. Strawn, famed Chicago lawyer, and John Van A. MacMurray, U. S. Minister to China...
John Van A. McMurray, U. S. Minister, was advised that his fellow delegate, Lawyer Silas Strawn of Chicago, had completed his conferences with Washington officials, was about to leave for Peking accompanied by innumerable papers and experts...
...representatives will be Minister MacMurray and Silas Strawn, famed Chicago lawyer, who was once very nearly appointed Attorney General by President Coolidge. On these two will rest the greatest burden of steering a middle course. For they will have U. S. citizens to protect, and the facts of the Chinese situation to face as well as the demands of the powers who would like a great number of desirable things which probably are not obtainable...