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...Crissinger will abandon his seat as Controller of the Currency to become Governor of the Federal Reserve Board. On the same day Henry M. Dawes, younger brother of General Charles G. Dawes (McKinley's Controller of Currency), will take the chair vacated by D. R. Crissinger...
...Turkish intellect was able to foresee these possibilities in economic rivalry at Lauzanne, but it failed to realize that some countries can settle differences by compromise rather than by war. It failed to see that the United States need not abandon the "open door" policy which Secretary Hughes enunciated last fall, and which leaves a territory as open to French or British as to American citizens. Turkish politics seem not to have developed along with the politics of western countries, and appear unaware that "international improvement", as Lord Robert Cecil puts it, "is progressing from rivalry to cooperation...
...letter to the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee declared: " I approve not of the conditional but of the unconditional adhesion of the United States to the World Court." Meanwhile Mr. Harding is reported to be embarrassed by the early announcement of his candidacy in 1924. He may even abandon his contemplated speaking tour of the country (in which he was expected to advocate the Court), if it appears that he will have to come before the country not as the president of the United States but as a campaigning candidate...
Following the Commissioner's message, two protests were immediately made. The American Indian Defense Society in Manhattan asserted that if the program is carried out, the Indians will be compelled to abandon traditions as old as their race, and will be denied freedom in worshiping the gods of their ancestors. The other protest came from the Yakimo tribe in the State of Washington. Its chief in announcing the usual spring dances declared: " You say, ' Farm as the white man does' and ' Save your money as the white man does.' . . . When you stop the white...
...Undergraduates gave a decision of 34 to 15 in favor of the resolution, "Resolved, That the United States government should act at once to bring to an end the dangerous crisis in the Ruhr". The audience also favored 46 to 3 the subject, "Resolved, That the United States abandon its policy of isolation and take action, and if necessary, sacrificing steps to help Europe in her present problem...