Washington seals off early peace talks amid Senate moves
The capital cools on peace talks with plans for executive sessions to bar open debate in the Senate on any peace negotiations or possible terms. Secretary Lansing may relay views via London Paris and Rome as Allied officials seek to align positions with Vatican proposals.
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Riano
Spain
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Wilson
Stone
Foreign Relations Committee
LaFollette
Wisconsin
America
Rome
Albert Thomas
Chamber of Deputies
Stockholm
Alsace-Lorraine
Poland
Italia
von Bethmann-Hollweg
First Step to Lower the Price of Bread
The Food Administration forms a wheat corporation to fix this year’s wheat price and to buy for the US government and allied mills. Herbert Hoover chairs the corporation with Julius Barnes as president and a twelve member price‑fixing committee under Garfield. Grain licensing extends government control to elevators and mills to steady prices.
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Food Administration
Grain
Herbert C. Hoover
Julius Barnes
Duluth
Garfield
Williams College
The
Mr. Hoover
Wilson
Hoover
Grain Men Approve Food Administration Proposals
Nearly a dozen representatives from boards of exchange and elevator systems joined officials in Washington for a daylong conference. They endorsed the food administration proposals and millers named a committee led by James F. Bell of Minneapolis to help draft and enforce flour regulations, with eight other prominent millers aboard.
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Boards of Exchange and Elevator Systems
Washington
Food Administration
James F. Bell
Minneapolis
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