1930 LONDON, England, Jan. 23. – Ramsay MacDonald opened the session today and asked each nation alphabetically, beginning with S, what they were prepared to sink. Mr. Stimson, America, speaking also for Wisconsin and Alabama—... [pt.1]
1929 NEW YORK, N.Y., Jan. 23. – It’s hard to get money out of the Senate for anything but for politics. Yesterday the Democrats bet Mr. Hoover $24,000,000 (of the people’s money) that he couldn’t enforce prohibition. ... [1/3]
1928 LAFAYETTE, La., Jan. 23. – Just passed through the lower Mississippi flood district again, first time since last May. Congress has taken up the tariff, farm relief, big navy, Al Smith, Ku Klux, Nicaragua, Cuban independence, Mexican oil, Boulder Dam and Tom Heflin, but... [1/2]
1927 NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 23. – Mr. Coolidge says he is not going to submit the Mexican trouble to arbitration. He says he feels so sure we are right that there is no one he would trust to decide it in our favor. The Mayor. P. S. – Be sure you are right and then go ahead, but don’t arbitrate.
1935 LANCASTER, Pa., Jan. 21. – Headed west. New York is too fast for me. The evening press relates that the Supreme Court give in a decision on Mooney, not on the gold clause. Well, they forget Mooney has been in for about twenty years and the gold has only been out for one year. ... [1/2]
1934 SANTA MONICA, Cal., Jan. 21. – Well, the sixty-cent dollar passed the House by nine to one. Where did that one come from? Can it be the President’s power is waning? The Senate will talk against it, but vote for it. ... [1/3]
1932 LONDON, Jan. 21. – Flew from Paris today. Americans always make this trip, but won’t fly at home. Yet, we have twenty lines as good. I sure miss Charley Dawes. The trouble is, there is not enough of Dawes to go around everywhere we need him. ... [1/2]
1931 WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 21. – Frank Hawks and Casey Jones and I flew in here this afternoon from New York. Went up to the “opera comique” and heard the cast argue in both houses. ... [1/3]
1930 LONDON, England, Jan. 21. – Well, the whole thing was nothing but a Democratic convention, with a silk hat on. The King made the best speech, then showed his real intelligence by leaving. When speaking he was facing the American delegation. ... [1/10]
1929 NEW YORK, N.Y., Jan. 21. – This fellow Whalen is really trying his best to do something with this traffic situation in New York, and everybody is hoping he gets away with it. ... [1/3]