Word: talks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These naval activities, of course, in no wise reduced the determination of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and other U. S. delegates to the London Naval Conference to talk Japan's delegates out of their demands for large submarine tonnage. With nice new bags and trunks ceremoniously packed by his wife who remained behind in Tokyo, onetime Japanese Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki had brought his delegation to Washington for a brief diplomatic visit on the way to London. To his suburban home, Woodley, Statesman Stimson invited Delegates Wakatsuki and Takarabe, there with U. S. Delegate Morrow, discussed naval matters...
...impeded sales of the American Mercury containing "Hatrack." Last spring it pounced on Scribner's for the serial instalments of Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms." Last week magazine readers watched to see what Boston would do about the January number of Plain Talk, which contained a sizzling article about Boston itself...
...teaching force belong to the Baptist faith. . . . The students take seriously the fact that Howard is a Christian college. . . ."-President John C. Dawson of Howard College in the college catalog. At Howard last week, up stood Horace Calvin Day, associate professor of biology, to demonstrate in a chapel talk to the students that perhaps the intellectual and the spiritual do not always embrace each other in the manner President Dawson suggests...
...shall be able to have a personal talk with Stimson. I have known Stimson intimately for nearly 30 years...
Neither Mr. Powys nor his "Fables" are for the poor mortal who likes a good story, but who can not abide "literature." Like a medium, this clever writer makes such homely objects as a bucket and a rope scamper and talk worldly wisdom in a naive accent. And if you would find the love affairs of "The Seaweed and the Cuckoo-Clock" amusing and enlightening you will proclaim "Fables" an important piece of workmanship. There is no doubt that this little book is very much the thing for the right people...