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...limit their soldiery. For U. S. participation he asked Congress for $450,000 as expense money. To represent the country he appointed a delegation of five: Charles Gates Dawes, Ambassador to Great Britain, Hugh Simons Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium, Norman Hezekiah Davis, onetime Under Secretary of State. Claude Augustus Swanson, Senator from Virginia, and Mary Emma Woolley. president of Mount Holyoke College. They were called "the best practical pacifists available." Mr. Dawes resigned as a delegate to become president of Reconstruction Finance Corp. and President Hoover replaced him with Secretary of State Stimson as chairman of the delegation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Promise to the Dead | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

Fortnight ago President Hoover picked his first Geneva delegate?Senator Claude Augustus Swanson of Virginia, ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee. A neophyte at international conferences, a Big Navy advocate, Senator Swanson, with his stringy mustache, corded eyeglasses and rather pompous airs, accepted because he does not have to work for re-election until 1934. Thus starting at the bottom of his delegation, President Hoover last week worked backwards to the top, appointed three more members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Arms, Men & A Woman | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...President Hoover definitely picked Senator Claude Augustus Swanson of Virginia, ranking Democrat of the Foreign Relations Committee, as a U. S. delegate to the February Arms Conference at Geneva. Another likely choice: Assistant Secretary of State James Grafton Rogers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Dec. 28, 1931 | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn). Critics who feel that the cinema should be an independent medium are discouraged because an overwhelming majority of the best talkies are reproductions of successful plays or novels. Tonight or Never is a case in point. The cast-with the exception of Alison Skipworth, Gloria Swanson and Boris Karloff, Frankenstein's monster, who herein plays a waiter-is the one which made the play a success in Manhattan when it was produced by the late David Belasco. The cinema, directed by Mervyn Leroy, differs from Mr. Belasco's production mainly in the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 28, 1931 | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

Melvyn Douglas handles his role well and photographs so pleasantly that he is likely to remain in Hollywood for some time. So is Ferdinand Gottschalk, a first-rate character actor, who skips about Gloria Swanson chanting in a strange way when pleased by any turn of events. Tonight or Never is an easygoing, insignificant and funny cinematic escapade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 28, 1931 | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

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