Word: foreigner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote of confidence, 331 to 167. Paradoxically, Tardieu the pseudo-American proclaimed later in the week a policy in regard to the Hoover-MacDonald Five Power Naval Conference which might prove obnoxious to many U. S. patriots. Quizzed at a joint session of the Chamber's Naval and Foreign Affairs Committees, the squarejawed, pugnacious Prime Minister rapped: "No final decision will be taken at the London Conference. It is merely preliminary to the Disarmament Conference of the League of Nations at Geneva, where a definite agreement will be sought...
Tardieu will himself head the French Delegation at London, with his great and famed Foreign Minister Aristide Briand in second place, and Minister of Marine Georges Leygues, whose whiskers seem as wide as the seas themselves, in third. Though M. Briand is nothing if not conciliatory, he shares with M. Tardieu and most Frenchmen a shrewd wish to link the U. S. in disarmament with the League...
Silent Howls. Soon after the Hoover of Mexico was elected he received an invitation to visit the U. S. from Thomas W. Lament, Chairman of the International Committee of Bankers concerned with Mexico's unpaid foreign debt. At that time Señor Ortiz Rubio told correspondents he had wired Mr. Lament: "In case I am able to accept your invitation I will advise you in ample time." But, when he left Mexico, the President-Elect said nothing about the invitation, declared that he was going for his health to Johns Hopkins, and has denied repeatedly that...
...talk of "secret processes and patents." Last February the International Combustion Engineering Corp., world's leading manufacturer of boilers, automatic stokers, ash handlers and power plant devices, opened a new plant at New Brunswick, N. J. Function of this plant was to use a newly acquired foreign patent for the distillation of coal, rendering from the fuel valuable gas byproducts, light oil, and a powdered semi-coke for use in steam power plants...
...Foreign News...