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...from La Scala to appear in Manhattan. On the Paris Drench)-The Duke de Alba from Spain descendant of Columbus; William Nelson Cromwell, famed Manhattan Lawyer. GOING. During the past week the following men and women left the U. S. on the following ships: On the Berengaria (Cunard)-Gloria Swanson, cinema actress; Georges Car pentier and his manager, volatile Francois Descamps. On the Majestic (White Star)-Florence Easton, Metropolitan Opera singer; Samuel H. Church, President of the Carnegie Institute. On the De Grasse (French)-Joseph C. Stehlin, famed U. S. ace, with a 183-karat diamond bought from...
Virginia sent up her senior Senator, Claude A. Swanson, to nominate her junior Senator, Carter Glass, former Secretary of the Treasury. For 20 minutes, Virginia and New York maintained a languid march. Then Governor Trinkle seconded Mr. Glass with the declaration: "No man can point the finger of scorn at him except with pride." A woman in her 60's, Mrs. Kate W. Barrett, seconded Mr. Glass again, in an able speech which provoked real applause...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee has its self avowed eyes and ears-and there are five: Senators Pepper of Pennsylvania, Swanson of Virginia, Shipstead of Minnesota, Brandegee of Connecticut and Pittman of Nevada. These five, on behalf of the full committee, undertook last week to hold public hearings on the proposal that the U.S. participate in the World Court (Permanent Court of International Justice). The subcommittee certainly got an "earful" if not an "eyeful." The list of those who appeared to advocate entrance into the Court was as long as the recital of the Argive ships before Troy. There was former...
...COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS TO INVESTIGATE AMERICAN ACTIVITIES OF SOVIET GOVERNMENT - Senators Borah (Chairman), Lenroot, Pepper, Swanson, Pittman...
...Swanson, ironically: "The Hague conferences were so effective in preventing war and so effective in producing disarmament that the Senator thinks they should be reconvened, having been so effective in this respect in the past...