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...Coolidge-for-President Club of Chicago which sought to boost his candidacy for 1924: " I have given no thought to the matter to which you refer, and I am merely doing what I can to take up the burdens of my office. . . . I am sure you will understand that if I ask your help to this end, rather than in the way you have suggested, it shows no lack of appreciation of your kindness...
...those who have been and know how to be financially so generous. It believes also, however, that the money which enables the creation of necessary officials should not give to these officials the impression that they are masters of an institution like the International Red Cross." In order to understand the situation it is necessary to know that there are two international Red Cross organizations- the International Red Cross Committee (sometimes known as the Geneva Red Cross) and the International League of Red Cross Societies (headquarters in Paris). The former was founded on the Geneva convention of 1864 (now replaced...
...schools and colleges should imitate the few pioneers who are now teaching the basic facts and principles of labor problems," says Mr. Barnes, " it would become vastly easier to understand business cycles, to retain prosperity, to prevent strikes and to bring about cooperation among nations against future wars...
...also to burden the poor. Nevertheless, the insurgents in Congress demand that if there be a revision of income surtaxes it be upward instead of down, with excess profits taxes restored. They charge Secretary Mellon with favoritism towards the wealthy. It is probably true that Mr. Mellon does not understand the vote-getting value of the political slogan: " Soak the rich...
...youngest child, who is five years old, I have seen only once, when he was christened, and, counting the War years, I have been away from home for nine years. All these years living in my trunk. A child can understand that I am not living here for pleasure. Sooner or later the day must come when I shall return to Germany. I ask only to live like an ordinary citizen on my large estate in-Silesia and in the midst of my family. The Socialist Government wanted to seize that estate, but I am sure that I shall...