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...case of a dispute between the two countries, was originally consummated in 1908, to hold for five years It had already been extended twice for the same period, in 1913 (when Mr. Bryan was Sec- retary of State) and 1918 (Lansing). So the present renewal did not cause much comment. But there was a new provision added to the treaty this time-that if the U. S. should enter the World Court, a new agreement should be drawn up for presenting disputes to that body...
...incident at Philadelphia aroused much editorial comment in the press. Said the New York Tribune : " Fancy Henry Corbett Lodge! . . . The idea of spurious Cabots is as disturbing as the thought of counterfeit antiques in the Metropolitan Museum...
Stuffing food leads to congestion in mastication. With twelve minutes for dinner, the man who puts all his dinner into his mouth in the first five minutes is doing himself and the food an injustice. This was the general tenor of comment of Immigration Commissioner Henry H. Curran, of New York, and of P. A. S. Franklin, President of the International Mercantile Marine Co. Their remarks were provoked by the rush to fill August immigrant, quotas of foreign countries in New York...
...explains that he acts " for the protection and safety of that institution," for the security of the schools of the state and to place the Farmer-Labor movement " in the hands of those who are selected directly by the rank and file." President pro tem. George Wilson declines to comment...
There is, however, a complication in the Sakhalin controversy. Late last Winter an American, Harry F. Sinclair, head of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Co., obtained an oil concession on northern Sakhalin from the Soviet authorities. Japanese aspirations were rendered transparent by the hostile comment of a large part of the Japanese press. The Soviet Government through its representative at Tokyo, Adolph A. Joffe, is trying to get Japan to settle with the Sinclair Co., in case Russian Sakhalin is ceded...