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During the week Londoners picked as their favorite character in the U. S. Delegation tall, breezy Texas ranching tycoon Ralph W. Morrison. Not much concerned with Conference backstairs intrigue (see p. 15), Mr. Morrison sat through more Conference sessions than any other U. S. Delegate, puffed a fat cigar in pleasant ignorance that all the little signs reading "Prière de ne pas fiimcr" meant "Please do not smoke...
...Morrisonism of the week London papers printed separately under sly little heads. Someone, they reported, mentioned to Mr. Morrison the name of Dr. Eduard Benes (pronounced Benesh). the man who is often called "Europe's Smartest States-man," a leading founder of the Republic of Czechoslovakia, who has put that State at the head of the Little Entente...
...Benesh?" said Texas' Morrison, candidly puzzled, "Who's Benesh...
...speech, Secretary of State Hull sailed for London determined to negotiate a program of reduced tariffs, stabilized currencies and a general increase in world prices. Other conference delegates aboard the "President Roosevelt" with him were Nevada's Senator Pittman, Tennessee's Representative McReynolds and Texas' Ralph Morrison. Later in the week Delegate James Middleton Cox departed on the Olympic, declaring: "If the world is sick enough to have gained any sense, the Conference will be a success...
Next day, changing tactics, all 37 Democratic aldermen caucused at the Morrison Hotel. Just as Boss Nash was about to join the group, reporters asked him: "What is the choice for Mayor...