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...February 6, the arbitration treaty between France and the U. S. expires. Last week Secretary of State Kellogg gave French Ambassador Claudel the first draft of a new treaty to send home on approval. It was proposed that the U. S. and France agree...
...when Chairman William Morgan Butler of the National Committee declared himself for Kansas City, Mo. The Committee bridled and said it would not be led by the nose. Supporters of Committeeman William Henry Crocker of California obliged Chairman Butler to wait until the 20th ballot before they joined the draft-Coolidge delegates and the flatter-the-farmer delegates in obedience to Chairman Butler. The Republican National Convention will meet at "the heart of America," 1,089 delegates strong, on June...
...Hoover maintained an industrious silence last week in his big, bare office at the Department of Commerce. His friends were discreetly jubilant. First to swing from the draft-Coolidge movement to Mr. Hoover's support was Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, "Red Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande" (TIME, Dec. 12), representing 26 Texas delegates...
...Republican town committee of Sudbury, Mass., voted almost unani- mously (6 to 1) to "use every art and effort" to draft President Coolidge, advising the U. S. to double his salary and re-elect him for life...
King Albert of Belgium, who does all he can to promote the breeding of sturdy Belgian draft horses, sent Prince Albert de Ligne, Belgian ambassador to the U. S., to offer a cup at the Live Stock exposition. Charles A. Wentz of Kirby, Ohio, won it with his four-year-old Belgian stallion Lordeau II. Evert King of Chicago owns the best stallion, Waynesdale King. Champion last year also, Waynesdale King could not compete for King Albert...