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...French Ambassador to the U.S. reported that he had pressed U.S. Secretary of State John Jay for a settlement, only to receive an evasive and rather plaintive reply...
History 7 Mr. Whitney, Emerson J. "Political Settlement of the Lutheran Situation in Germany...
...Italian attache's pen raced on. It wrote that Senator McKellar of Tennessee (Democrat) called Mussolini "a bandit." It wrote that Senator Reed stigmatized Fascismo as "the Italian Ku Klux Klan." It wrote that Senator Howell of Nebraska (Republican) considers this settlement (totaling $2,407,000,000) "in effect a cancellation of the Italian debt...
...head off the Democrats from getting through a vote referring it back to the reporting committee for expert investigation. This proposal was the more feared because numerous gentlemen in both camps favor a long delay, to carry them past the November elections without the necessity of voting on the settlement, which is loaded with dynamite in some constituencies...
...runway had melted, leaving about a foot of slush which the Alaskan churned high in the air as she shot forward. Lifting slowly but easily, she circled to a height of 1,000 feet over the landing field, then squared off north-by-west for Point Barrow, northernmost settlement on this continent, where her commander, Captain George Hubert Wilkins, wished to deposit supplies before asking her to carry him over the Arctic seas. About noon, Fairbanks reported a radio from Captain Wilkins saying he had sighted Point Barrow. That meant that the Alaskan was soaring over the great triangular tundra...