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...called reporters to him and announced: "Accordingly, last month I notified the Secretary General of the League of Nations, who is presenting this to the other signatory powers, that the draft protocol met with my approval, and that if it was accepted by the other States I would recommend to the President of the U. S. that it be signed and submitted to the Senate for its consent to ratification...
...precedent Mrs. Pratt was not chosen by Dewey [Hilles]. . . . She will not be docile . . . will neither revere nor follow him in the way of her fair predecessor. Last year she exhibited a distressing lack of faith in Dewey's political judgment, refusing to follow him in the 'draft Coolidge' movement, preferring to ally herself with the early effort to nominate Mr. Hoover, seeing eye to eye with the astute Ogden Mills who has the same affectionate regard for Dewey he has for poison ivy and measles. ... If there is any following, Dewey will...
...dinner pail," refused Joffre an official welcome. In 1919 a Negro boy was stoned at a white bathing beach; next day 30 blacks were maimed in the city's worst race riot. Alfonse Capone came from New York with a scar on his face. Dean O'Banion, onetime acolyte, draft-dodger, said "Hello" to two strangers, fell slug-riddled in his flower shop. Mayor Thompson took some friends down the brown Mississippi, washed water over levees, was shot at. "Just yesterday" Capone was jailed in Philadelphia. "For God's sake," says Chicago, "what does it matter who sits...
...Laws. To draft a uniform aviation code to be adopted by all States, government representatives, legislators, lawyers and flyers met at Mineola, L. I., last week. Their preliminary recommendations included punishments for flying while drunk, reckless stunting, flying so low as to endanger persons on the ground, making too much noise with the motor, landing on and damaging private property. During the past year state legislatures entertained 250 heterogeneous bills on aviation. Of these 106 were enacted...
Soon steps to draft a concrete program of evacuation were taken by what was called the Political Commission of the Hague Conference. Beaming Dr. Stresemann sat to business between Mr. Henderson and M. Briand. "I believe a settlement of the political issue can be effected," he said, "even if agreement on the financial aspect of the conference is postponed...