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...Grew, American unofficial observer, permitted the concessions of the British Vickers-Armstrong Syndicate and French Regie Generale des Chemins de Fer, shorn of their obnoxious preferential clauses, to be included in the Treaty. In vain Sir Horace Rumbold argued that the Turkish Petroleum Co. concession for the Mesopotamian oilfields was valid, that his Government considered no other claims when British interests were affected and that any later contradictory agreement (i. e., the Chester Concession) made by the Turks was simply illegal. Mr. Grew icily referred the British representative to the three years' correspondence between the British and American Governments...
...spite of Mr. Grew's implicit defense of the claims of the Ottoman-American Development Company (the Chester Concession's legal name), the U. S. State Department issued a categorical denial that the U. S. had given the concessionaries promise of moral or political endorsement. Neither the Department nor its officers took any part in the negotiations for the concession. The sole concern of the American Government was for the Open Door...
...exposed by the principal players. When twenty lusty Italian workmen shout "Uno! Sei! Tre! Dieci!" at the top of their lungs at the same moment, one can surmise the motives which induced the Government to pass the antigambling law. At the same time, one appreciates how from the morra grew the equally dreaded Camorra, or Black Hand...
About 1834 Smith's licentiousness grew so pronounced as to threaten the existence of the Church, which had grown to be a fair-sized organization. Brigham Young, Vermont painter and glazier, who had been baptized in 1832 and soon afterwards ordained elder, made his influence felt by his " indomitable will, persuasive eloquence, executive ability, shrewdness and zeal,'' and was ordained one of the " twelve apostles " who were sent out in 1835 as missionaries to the " gentiles." He was given the title of "The Lion of the Lord...
...Rolls-Royce). He allowed himself to be taken on a three-day party to Atlantic City and elsewhere while the bootleggers recklessly dissipated "grands" ($1,000 bills). He had them show him where their contraband was hidden. Under his encouragement the original syndicate of "six to nine" brewery-bootleggers grew to 15, and plans were laid for inducing 50 to join the criminal ring. But the bootleggers insisted it was time to begin operations. Finally he could put them off no longer. "That night the underworld rejoiced. A damp and fetid night it was ... a dreary, dismal night, hung...