Hoover Plan for One Year Reparations Moratorium
Walter E Edge reports a U S plan to suspend reparations and war debts for one year likely to pass if France does not block it. Paris cabinet offers a modified approval while insisting Germany continue unconditional annuities. Britain and Germany back the plan. Mussolini and Belgium show mixed support amid treasury talks and hopes for improved world trade and stock buoyancy.
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Quai d'Orsay
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the Treasury
Mr. Mills
Mills
Rosenbach acquires major 18th century Washington and Loyalist papers
Dr A S W Rosenbach buys a 62 volume collection of about 20 000 manuscripts tied to the British army in America during the War of Independence. Housed items include 69 Washington letters to Clinton and Howe and correspondence of Howe Barrington North Germain Shelburne Burgoyne Andre Franklin Cornwallis Amherst Wright. The collection, kept intact, features the finest American Loyalist papers and the largest material on the capture and evacuation of New York.
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A S. W. Rosenbach
Philadelphia
Guy Carleton
Lord Dorchester
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Sir Henry Clinton
Sir William Howe
Lord Barrington
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Maj
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William Wranklin
Benjamin Franklin
Lord Cornwallis
Lord Amherst
Sir James Wright
Rosenbach
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New York
Henry Knox the Boston book seller who led artillery
Henry Knox born 1750 in Boston and became a key colonial artillery leader. He built up guns for Dorchester heights, commanded artillery in the Revolution, and helped trap Cornwallis at Yorktown. He later served as major general and as first secretary of war and navy. Knox College honors him. many graduates carry Knox as a surname.
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Yorktown
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Knox College
Galesburg
Knox
John Knox
Jefferson and Time's Change
St. Paul Pioneer Press notes Jefferson's foresight and enduring influence. It traces his Jeffersonian ideals of individual rights and limited government against industrial America, noting the shift from agrarian roots to a centralized, urban society and praising his blend of lofty ideology with practical statecraft.
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Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson
United States
Atlantic Coast
Monticello
Americca
Monmouth 130th Anniversary Battle Reenactment at Monmouth
May W. Mount describes a 1928 New York Times pageant reenacting the Battle of Monmouth from Monmouth Courthouse to Old Tennent. Molly Pitcher is honored as British and American casualties tally the fierce fighting. The piece notes the village name shift to Freehold and the Scots settlement around the courthouse.
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New Jersey
Monmouth
Monmouth Courthouse
Molly Pitcher’s Brook
Freehold
Scots’ Meeting House
Topanemus
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