Word: formula
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elder Statesman Elihu Root arrived at the White House, just back from Geneva where, with other famed jurists, he had been revising World Court statutes. President Hoover kept him for luncheon. They talked of Mr. Root's new formula for getting the U. S. into the Court over the Senate's reservation against advisory opinions. Secretary of State Stimson was present, a statesman with an ear quick and open to Elder Statesman Root, who gave him his first law job and later took him in as a junior partner...
Then, most exciting of all, Hugh Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, chair-man of the U. S. Delegation to the League of Nations preparatory Arms Conference at Geneva, delivered at Geneva the Hoover formula for reduction (not limitation) of naval armaments. How would the Powers take to his plan? Carefully, secretly President Hoover had planted his armament reduction idea in Chief Delegate Gibson's mind during quiet White House evenings a month ago, when the Powers despaired of success at the forthcoming conference...
...Rainbow Man (Sono-Art). A new, independent producing company has probably fulfilled its intention of building a box-office success on the Jazz Singer formula around Minstrel Eddie Dowling. When Dowling's pal, an acrobat, is dying after a fall from a trapeze, he promises to take care of the acrobat's little boy and keeps his promise through some amusing and a number of saccharine episodes, a love affair, and recurrent Irish-tenor melodies. Best shot: the audience in the Arcadia Opera House. Best song: "Sleepy Valley...
...Loudon. Presently the delegates were asked to express individually their approval or disapproval of the following general principles: 1) Appreciable reduction by all nations of their existing armaments; 2) Acceptance by each nation in proportion to its size of a proportional degree of disarmament; 3) Adoption of a mathematical formula for determining the proportion...
...great and good friend. King Albert of the Belgians, President Hoover sent birthday greetings last week. To the State Department's stiff formula for such felicitations, the president added: "My own personal greetings." King Albert is 54, President Hoover...