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...stock ownership, stock holdings, or stock control, own any interest in any lease acquired under the provisions of this act." The Federal Trade Commission, which undertook an exhaustive investigation of the international oil situation, reports that foreign oil corporations, such as the Royal Dutch-Shell group, the Anglo-Persian, the Turkish Petroleum Corporation, and several French combines, have systematically discriminated against American oil companies in Mesopotamia, the Dutch East Indies, Persia, and the other great spheres of French, British, and Dutch influence. Therefore, the United States will deny the right of free competition in this country...
...will met at Rome in May to choose a successor to its president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. The question is: Who will be elected? Mrs. Margery Corbett Ashby is being put forward by English suffragists. But the post has been occupied by an American for 20 years, and another Anglo-Saxon is considered undesirable. Mme. Marguerite Schlumberger, president of the French branch of the alliance, is suggested, but her election might "drive the Germans out of the association." Besides Mrs. Ashby and Mme. Schlumberger, Miss Crystal MacMillan of Scotland is the only other woman mentioned as a presidential possibility...
...request of King Fuad I and Egyptian notables, Cenhia Abraham Pasha agreed to form a cabinet to carry on the foreign affairs of the Government, but will not deal with Anglo-Egyptian issues...
...made known that at the time of my marriage to Consuelo Vanderbilt, from whom I am now divorced, Mr. Vanderbilt set aside $2,500,000 in railroad stock from which I and my heirs are to receive the income. These arrangements create what statesmen call 'indissoluble Anglo-American ties...
...only place where Anglo-Saxon reticence breaks down completely is the playhouse. In general, the Englishman or American likes to do his crying alone. He will lock himself in his own room, equip himself with smelling salts or a bottle of gin and a sponge, and have a good quiet weep. In the same way, he dislikes rising to high pitches of public hilarity. A reserved smile, or at most a genteel snicker is all he will permit himself in the presence of his associates. But under the sheltering darkness of the playhouse, he will be trapped into any extreme...