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...Harvard and non-Harvard. Besides Founder-members George Fisher Baker and William Ziegler Jr., some of the old established Tycoon-Associates are: Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, John Pierpont Morgan, Adolph S. Ochs, Otto Hermann Kahn, Andrew William Mellon, Owen D. Young, Martin John Insull, Julius Rosenwald. The farflung scope of the new endowment was reflected in such names as H. Gordon Selfridge of London, James Drummond Dole of Honolulu, Hubert Fleishhacker of California. Samuel H. Halle and Oris Paxton Van Sweringen of Cleveland, Richard Pickering Joy of Detroit...
...Added years make it impossible for me to assume now the official responsibilities of leadership as I did prior to 1921, but I am ready now. as then, to serve the cause. Necessarily the service to be rendered must be limited in scope to advising from time to time when requested on questions of major policy. Such service I am now rendering through Mr. [Felix M.] Warburg to the Jewish Agency.† Such service I can render also to the Z. O. A. In my opinion, it will be far more effective if rendered to an administration formed...
...belonging to his official home packed in barrels and shipped to storage; 2) he returned vigorously to his old thesis that Prohibition is only one of many important elements in the general crime situation, boldly defied a move by Congress to reduce the appropriation for and thus limit the scope of his National Law Enforcement Commission...
...other hand the report does not in fact smell of "British hypocrisy" though angry Indians are sure to proclaim a veritable stench. Startling and definitely courageous is the proposal that the police - always the subject most rigidly "reserved" to British administration under Dyarchy - shall now be placed within the scope of native officialdom. Today the governor of a province may not appoint a native as his minister of police, but under the Commission's plan he could, and as time passed he would gradually be expected and finally forced by public opinion to appoint a native...
...Government has made ... to cultivate friendship and goodwill." ..." Secretary Stimson acknowledged the resolution from the Foreign Relations Committee in a note to Senator Borah in which he compared the Treaty to any legal contract and added: "I did not attempt to define the duties of the Senate or the scope of its powers in passing upon treaties." "I'm Delighted." Though Secretary Stimson made no move to give up the secret papers, Senator Johnson triumphantly exclaimed , "Obviously the learned Secretary of State was unfortunate in his expressions. . . . While his explanation may not be as clear and as bright...