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...Lodge-hitherto hostile. Mr. Coolidge circulated through the crowd shaking hands, and climbed a 40-ft. wooden observation tower, issuing a warning for not too many people to follow him lest it collapse. ¶ On returning to White Court, Mr. Coolidge found Secretary of State Kellogg and Assistant Secretary Grew waiting for him on the piazza, where they had been sitting for an hour and a quarter. At once, all three fell to a two and a half hour conference on the state of Chinese affairs (see CHINA...
...general, the situation in China arising out of the anti-foreign riots (TIME, June 15 et seq.) neither improved nor grew worse. A state of high tension existed at Peking, Shanghai and Canton and the anti-foreign flame was fanned to remoter parts of the seaboard Provinces...
...above all, creditor nations under the Experts' Plan should not press for German payments quicker than that trade policy permits. Further, he warned that creditor nations, including the U. S., might have to curtail production if the Plan is to succeed. The U. S. delegation gasped. The French grew faint. Belgians were dazed. The entire conference was dejected, dismayed. Germans once again jubilated. Perhaps, after all, they would not have to pay any reparation...
...unsatisfactory ; for, according to the last election, they shared only one third of the seats with the other opposition parties. Their withdrawal, from the Chamber, therefore, in no sense affected the political situation. But they had hoped by their noncooperation protest to force the Government out. Instead, the Government grew stronger and the Aventine Opposition, as it is called, withered under the scorching blasts of Mussolini invectives and devices...
...Disciples of Christ, but left the pulpit. He failed in this business and in that business. In 1916, he founded a wholesale tailoring establishment at Cincinnati, manufacturing cheap suits and overcoats. In 1919, he announced that he would run his business on a "Golden Rule" plan. His employes grew in number from 29 to 6,000; his business grew from $132,000 to $7,000,000 turnover. It began to pay large cash dividends. It issued successive stock dividends...