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...curious began to ask: "Will Stearns be another Colonel House?" The facts of the relationship between Mr. Stearns and the President seem to be simply these: that Stearns has supported Coolidge through the thick and thin of politics. That he was Coolidge's right hand man in the settlement of the Boston police strike. These activities earned Stearns the titles from political opponents of "Lord Lingerie" and "Cal's Angel." As far as several able political correspondents can make out, however, the relation between Mr. Stearns and the new President is only about as "sinister" as friendship...
Although never at war with Turkey, the United States broke off diplomatic relations on April 20, 1917, and official relations have not been maintained since. The two treaties just signed at Lausanne will not be ratified until a settlement of "claims against the respective governments" is reached...
Harold Noice, a Canadian, left Nome on Aug. 3 on the schooner Donaldson, to relieve Crawford and place another man on the island. The Soviet authorities of Siberia plan to capture the relief party and the Crawford " settlement...
Greek finances are badly demoralized by the failure of the war with Turkey. The Governor of the National Bank of Greece has gone to London to raise a loan. Greece made application for help from the League of Nations, which, after examining the proposals and plans for the settlement of Greek refugees, stated that the guarantees offered by the Greek Government were sufficient for raising a loan. The exact amount to be borrowed is not known, but will probably be between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 pounds sterling...
...Lord Mayor's banquet in London, at which Secretary Mellon of the United States Treasury was a guest, Premier Baldwin referred to the recent debt funding negotiations for the settlement of the British debt to the United States, and added...