Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grant's support, worked for war with England and Spain, the annexation of Santo Domingo and Canada. The one real achievement of Grant's Administration was the settlement of the Alabama Claims by the first great arbitration of modern history, in which Fish, able, conciliatory, determined, blocked Sumner's extravagant demand that England pay for the prolongation of the Civil War in the same fashion that he blocked Secretary of War Rawlins' demand for an attack on Spain. By patience, vigilance and frequent threats to resign, he prevented worse Presidential blunders than those that disgraced Grant...
With a wave of his straw hat, gracious, gangling Director George Harold Edgell, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts stepped into the gondola of a police motor-cycle at Cunard's Pier in East Boston last month and went popping through the Sumner Tunnel to Huntington Avenue and the Museum. Behind him in two bunting-draped trucks rumbled the most valuable collection of Japanese art ever to have left Japan. It was the nucleus of an exhibition which opened this week, and which should rival in importance London's great Chinese art exhibition of last winter...
...political activity. Nevertheless, he was at pains to give White House correspondents the slip one afternoon last week and, on pretext of visiting his ailing Secretary of War at Walter Reed Hospital, motored 20 miles into Maryland to Oxon Hill Manor, country house of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles. There the President conferred with some 30 local Democrats, including Maryland's Senator Radcliffe, Baltimore's Mayor Jackson, National Committeeman Howard Bruce. When the Baltimore Sun discovered this privy excursion, newshawks rushed to the White House to question Press Secretary Stephen Early who told them without cracking...
...Sumner Prize, of $450, for the best dissertation dealing with means or measures tending towards the prevention of war, to Joseph F. Knowles '36, of New Bedford...
...onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico, had letters of approval and promises of co-operation from a score of Latin American officials who attended the Third Pan American Conference of National Directors of Health in Washington last month. Also in an approving mood were Sumner Welles, Assistant U. S. Secretary of State in charge of Latin American affairs, and Dr. Ross Mclntire, President Roosevelt's White House physician whose ear Dr. Eller had held for many an hour. When Dr. Eller ceased speaking President Roosevelt warmed him with a smile, told him to turn...