"Dying With Despatch"?
John Pierpont Morgan returned to Paris and the Second Dawes committee last week, having shaken off a cold by cruising the Adriatic in his black yacht Corsair with the Archbishop of Canterbury (TIME, April 29).
There seemed little enough for the greatest financier to go back to. "If our committee is not already dead," croaked a Japanese delegate, "it is certainly dying with despatch." Most observers concurred, but not indomitable Owen D. Young, chairman of the committee and co-representative of the U. S. with...
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