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...White House, Secretary of Labor Doak brought another report showing that in the last four months the U. S. Employment Service "by combing the highways and byways has succeeded in finding jobs for 281,769 unemployed." Next the President called in Julius Barnes, board chairman and Silas Strawn, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce to see what that organization could offer in the way of jobless relief. Anxiously discussed was the probability that a Federal dole would have serious Congressional backing. Declared Mr. Strawn as he emerged: "It would be deplorable if this country ever voted a dole...
...Fortnight ago it was rumored that Dr. Frank had asked his potent friend, Silas Hardy Strawn of Chicago...
...Debt Grapple. Just so long and no longer will a group of European businessmen keep still about "Uncle Shylock.'' The Hoover and Mellon speeches (see below), the daily struggles of Messrs Strawn and Traylor to steer the Congress steering committee, merely postponed the inevitable. Germans grumbled all week behind the scenes about what they now call not War debts but "international obligations.'' The French and Italians got in their able digs. But eventually the British Delegation took over in a fatherly way the job of making U. S. expectations that Europe will pay part of what she owes, seem...
...only trouble with asking an international congress of businessmen to act on such a syllogism is that businessmen are accustomed to think of Disarmament as political, as no business of theirs, as the business of statesmen. Wailed Chicagoan Strawn, who in other respects cooperated closely with the President last week: "The minute the International Chamber of Commerce touches politics we're through...
Showdown Sessions. Members of the International Chamber point with most pride to its General Resolution of 1923 and claim with some justice that it gave an impetus which eventually produced the Dawes Plan. Last week in a secret showdown the night before the Conference adjourned Mr. Strawn and others of the steering committee managed to agree on a General Resolution for 1931 which was quietly adopted next day, embracing three major resolutions...