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...Buenos Aires, the night before the U. S. plan for a 21-Republic agreement was to be broached, Mr. Hull and his glacial, able, pompous Assistant Secretary, Sumner Welles, sat brooding in their rooms in Alvear Palace. Mr. Hull had decided that some other nation must present the U. S. plan, and do the "fronting" for it, as a mere matter of strategy. It was 10:30 p. m. Protocol-minded Mr. Welles insisted nothing could be done that night. But to his horror, his worried chief shoved his feet into carpet slippers, his pajama coat dangling over his trousers...
...Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles said a few words about Cuba, speaking at a dinner given by the Cuban Chamber of Commerce. Last October Soviet Premier Molotov defended Russia's course in Finland, said Russia had granted Finnish independence while the Philippines and Cuba "had long been demanding freedom and independence from the U. S. and cannot get them." Said Mr. Welles dryly: matters between the U. S. and Cuba appear to be in better shape than matters between the Soviet Union and Finland, and are getting still better. Coming next February: Cuba's national election...
Harris will be in charge of the course. Professor Harold H. Burbank, Professor William L. Crum, Professor Alvin H. Hansen, Professor Edward S. Mason, Professor Joseph H. Schumpeter, Professor Sumner H. Slichter, Professor John H. Williams, and Paul M. Sweezy '32, instructor in Economics, will share in the teaching...
...Greeted informally coffee-colored, short Stenio Vincent, President of Haiti, in Washington to get credits for works projects. French-speaking President Vincent, now serving a second five-year term,* was referred to Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, who gave a stag dinner in his honor at Welles's Oxon Hill, Md. mansion. Mr. Vincent did not get to see Secretary Hull, nor was he officially welcomed with pomp and display. Said one Washington official: "Well, you can't get those five tanks out every...
...spring of 1928, rangy, left-handed John Hope Doeg, offshoot of California's famed tennis-playing Suttons, quit his studies at Stanford to tune up with the U. S. Davis Cup squad. Conservative President Sumner Hardy of the California Tennis Association huffed & puffed and finally howled that the Davis Cup Committee was "making bums out of young tennis players...