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Secretary of State Hughes, called upon by Lord Curzon, offered to let American financial experts "sit in" on the solution of Europe's reparations problem (TiME, Nov. 5). Premier Poincare grumbled "Yes"? and added as an afterthought: " We have no liking for your suggestion." The result is that the whole proposal may come to naught. But meanwhile the question has been translated into terms of national politics by the group of League of Nations irreconcilables...
Political positions held: Secretary of the Board of Trade, 1902-6; Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, 1911-15; Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1915-16; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1916-18; Lord Privy Seal, 1919-21; Prime Minister...
Those elected were Elmer Berry 1G.ed., I. R. Carey 2G.ed., R. I. Jacobs, 1G.ed., W. F. Keller 2G.ed., W. F. Linehan, 4G.ed., A. H. Lord 2G.ed., C. E. Marquardt 1G.ed., R. R. Masterson 2G.ed., T. W. Noon 2G.ed., J. C. Page 1G.ed., W. F. Pollard Jr. 2G.ed., W. J. Reed 2G.ed., C. R. Rounds 1G.ed., R. L. Wright 1G.ed...
...Pall Mall Gazette is dead. It was " a paper written by gentlemen for gentlemen." Among its editors were the late John Morley and Lord Milner. George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Matthew Arnold, R. L. Stevenson had contributed. Was the Gazette too good for its public...
Stanley Baldwin, British Premier: " The students of Edinburgh University have elected me Lord Rector in succession to Mr. George. My first cousin, Rudyard Kipling, was recently installed as Rector of St. Andrews in succession to James M. Barrie...