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Secretary Mellon had descended from his train nervously, shyly, and hurried to shut himself in a hotel suite. He was clinging to his maxim, "There's luck in leisure." Also, obviously, he was under great pressure to draft President Coolidge if possible. He had learned, or accepted, nothing final before leaving Washington.* He still sought conference with other leaders before speaking...
...Leona Knight of Providence, R. I., to cast at least one vote for her father, Candidate Curtis of Kansas; Sarah Schuyler Butler, daughter of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University (he, too, is a delegate), to follow the lead of National Committeeman Charles D. Hilles in trying to "draft-Coolidge"; President Roosevelt's daughter Alice (wife of Speaker Nicholas Long-worth), to watch; and the late Speaker Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon's daughter, Miss Helen Cannon of Danville, 111., "to be very quiet." Miss Cannon arrived early, to be the guest of Mrs. Jacob L. Loose...
...Draft Coolidge...
...Owens concerning a lady to whom he had proposed and by whom he had been rejected, nor could he have written any letter like that which Lincoln wrote to General Grant in 1865 asking that his son, aged 22, who had been kept at Harvard College, despite the draft, should be put on his staff and "not in the ranks." Tyler had two grandsons, privates in the Confederate Army, one of whom was killed and the other wounded, and two sons by his second marriage who surrendered at Appomattox aged...
...elements of a first class Franco-British tiff were thus brewing, the foreign offices of these two "old friend" countries hastily devised a formula which would save faces all round. They proposed, unofficially, to the U. S. State Department that an international conference of jurists be called to draft the final Peace Pact text. To this proposal Secretary Kellogg returned an unofficial but emphatic "No!" Thus he shrewdly sought to force the Allied Powers to declare before public opinion whether or not they are ready to "renounce...