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Over the White House lawns one day last week swarmed hundreds of dentists, delegates to the American Dental Convention at Washington (see p. 18). Not to risk missing a handshaking appointment with the President, they had come early. In the White House, President Hoover was talking with Prime Minister MacDonald. The babble of the dentists came disturbingly to his ears. He frowned and excused himself to Mr. MacDonald, who smiled understandingly at this inconvenience of Democracy. Out the President hastened, grasped a few dental hands, posed hastily for photographs with a few of the nearest dentists, then retreated into...
...Later in the week the President, like millions of other U. S. stay-at-homes, fiddled with radio dials, inclined his ear to a loudspeaker. Not a word did he miss. He was listening to the now familiar voice of Prime Minister MacDonald speaking before stiff-shirted notables and receptive microphones at a dinner in Manhattan. Told that there was a telephone call from an intimate friend, the President said: "Tell him I'm too busy...
...opportunity to reassure Deputy Serat concerning researches and experiments which the government is making with respect to chemical and other advanced methods of warfare. They are being actively pressed by French scientists." In Nottingham, England, last week wiry Welshman David Lloyd George, suffering from a bad cold, said the MacDonald doings were "only a beginning" and bitterly flayed "huge war equipment." "In view of the Versailles Treaty," said he, between sniffs, "and the covenant of the League of Nations, this equipment is a farce, a discredit and a dishonor as well as a menace. Is a nation going to refer...
When Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain arrived in Manhattan last week (see p. 27) the volley of cheering was not unanimous. For also in the city was Mme. Sayba Garzouzi, Egypt's only woman lawyer, now studying jurisprudence in the U. S. A big woman, born 31 years ago in Syria, she has the lavish figure and smooth skin which discriminating Egyptians are known to prefer. Her jet hair matches her darting eyes; her dimples make her laughter an asset of which any lawyer might well be proud. Self-taught in the four legal codes...
...Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald continues his three-week visit to U.S. & Canada; Oct. 25-sails from Quebec for England. Oct. 10-18-Institute of International Law meets at Briarcliff Manor, N. Y., as guests of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Oct. 28-Institute of Pacific Relations meets at Kyoto. Oct. 29-British Parliament reconvenes at London. Oct. 30-General election in Ontario, Canada...