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...Bankers." Major work of the Conference week was to organize ten committees, 24 subcommittees and to deal in the Steering Committee with a sensational proposal by pugnacious Mexican Foreign Minister Dr. Jose Manuel Puig Casauranc. He wanted the Conference to declare a six to ten-year all-American moratorium on international public and private debts. As high words began to fly, correspondents pressed their ears to the broad panels of the Steering Committee's door. Scandalized, the Conference secretariat sent Uruguayan Republican guards in blue uniforms with scarlet breastplates, spiked steel helmets and imposing white-holstered revolvers to chase...
...extemporaneous speech at Chestertown, Md., where Washington College gave him an LL. D., President Roosevelt seemed to have the Lippmann criticism in mind. He said: "Some countries which have Dictatorships have laid down five-year plans and ten-year plans. However, I believe that in this country, which has not got a Dictator, we can move further in a shorter period without naming a definite length of time. . . . We have attained much within the past few months, but we cannot accomplish all in a few months...
...This was the scene as convicted kidnappers of Charles F. Urschel were sentenced in Oklahoma City. Left to right: Albert Bates (in white shirt), Harvey Bailey, Armon Shannon, R. G. Shannon, and Mrs. R. G. Shannon; all received life sentences except Armon Shannon who received a ten-year suspended sentence...
Though Henry Ford will probably appeal the verdict, it was the first Leland victory in the ten-year fight. Originally Ford sued Sweeten for $6,800 in unpaid notes and interest, but the agency promptly filed a counter suit for $160,000. Sweeten claimed that Henry Ford had promised to maintain exclusive Lincoln agencies in 75 cities, that this was soon cut to 40 and Ford dealers began to sell Lincolns. The more Lincolns the Ford dealers sold, the less Sweeten and other Lincoln dealers sold. Henry H. Rudolph, a former Sweeten vice president, swore that when he told Henry...
...Herbermann procured for his line a ten-year ocean mail contract at $1,044,000 per year. When his new ships began to operate Walter Brown, then Postmaster General, increased this subsidy to $2,185,000 per year. But Export Steamship was not overburdened with postal cargo. From August 1928 to June 1929 its ships carried precisely three pounds of mail, a cost to the Government of $234,980 per Ib. In 1929 it carried one pound of mail for $115,335. For fiscal 1931 it carried eight pounds of mail for $125,820 per Ib. Its defense was that...