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...been raised for charitable causes under his leadership than under any other man's-some $100,000,000. He once raised $5,000,000 for famine sufferers in Ireland. In 1922 he went to Central Europe and Russia in the interest of the American Relief Administration and the Joint Distribution Committee. Four years later he headed the United Jewish Campaign to raise $25,000,000, and in 1929 the Palestine Emergency Fund. At present he is national chairman of China Famine Relief. When he arrived in Manhattan two years ago from Detroit to engage in banking, he was welcomed...
...felt about his achievement. Announced he: "I only asked a simple civil question: Whether the Filipinos wanted independence. I did not expect that to create such a disturbance." He lined up Emilio Aguinaldo, oldtime rebel, for immediate freedom, even if the price were civil war. To a joint session of the Legislature he delivered a farewell address in which he said...
...formally presented to the Conference. Acting Secretary of State Castle asserted that President Hoover was the sole author of this "American proposal." A muddle developed when Delegate Stimson denied that he had received any "new Hoover plan" or presented it to the Conference. The ideas, he declared, were the joint product of the U. S. and Great Britain, whose Prime Minister had outlined practically the same proposal in his opening address to the Conference. Mr. Castle reiterated that the President should have full credit for the plan, guessed that Mr. Stimson's statement was only a friendly diplomatic gesture...
Inquired Secretary Lament in his letters to 125 operators: ". . . Will you be willing to attend a joint conference? In your judgment would such a conference bring about the results outlined by Mr. Lewis...
Statement. Monday morning came a joint statement from Chancellor Brüning and Premier Laval. Seldom has an official bulletin said so little so optimistically...