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...President received Charles D. Hilles, onetime (1912-16) Republican National Committee Chairman, was advised to appoint Frederick C. Hicks, onetime (1915-23) Congressman from New York, to the post of Alien Property Custodian. Later, Mr. Hilles said that he himself would not accept a Cabinet post (TIME, Apr. 6). ¶The President addressed the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, of which Morgan Butler, son of Senator Butler of Massachuetts, is President. He defended the tariff: "The towering stature of our industrial tariff as we see it today is ... the complete vindication of this policy." He praised our free export policy...
Finally, Senator Chamberlain went to court. Justice William Hitz of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia issued a temporary injunction forbidding the sale, gave the Dollar Company until Apr. 15 to show cause why the injunction should not be made permanent. The legal grounds for the injunction appear to be slight except for the general grounds of "public policy" used in the advocacy of the Pacific Mail...
...nine-days' mystery proved, last week, to be merely a mistake. "Phil- osopher-General" Lincoln C. Andrews, newly appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, will not, as originally reported, manage the foreign debt business of the U. S. (TIME, Apr. 6). General Andrews has been placed in charge of Customs, Coast Guard, Prohibition Unit, especially the last. The ex-cavalry officer who reorganized the military police system of the A. E. F. was regarded somewhat doubtfully as a supervisor of international billions, was hailed with enthusiasm as a defender of the 18th Amendment...
...result of the suspension of the Dean (Dr. Louis Barthelemy) and Faculty of the Paris Law School and the closing of that institution, all of which took place in consequence of the students' strike (TIME, Apr. 6), a nationwide students' strike was called. It was limited in the Provinces to expressions of sympathy, but, in the French metropolis, practically all the students in the Quartier Latin were enjoying the rest of a quiet strike. Upward of 10,000 of them paraded the streets as an orderly protest against the Government...
Wrote Mr. Roosevelt to Mr. Lodge (Apr. 6, 1910) : "At Rome I had an elegant row. The Pope imposed conditions upon my reception, requiring a pledge-secret or open-that I would not visit and speak to the Methodist Mission. Of course I declined absolutely to assent to any conditions whatever, and the reception did not take place...