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Debs (EUGENE V was freed from prison)

EUGENE V., was freed from prison by President Harding, Dec. 23, 1921.

DE VALERA, EAMON. (See IRISH FREE STATE.) FARRAND, LIVINGSTON, was elected president of Cornell University, July 20, 1921. GEDDES, SIR ERIC, resigned from Parliament, Feb. 23, 1922, to resume private business.

GOMPERS, SAMUEL, was re-elected president American Federation of Labor, June, 1921, by a vote of two to one.

HARDING, WARREN G. (See UNITED STATES, 1921-1922.) HARVEY, GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, appointed ambassador to Gr at Britain April 16, 1921. He aroused some criticism in the United States by a speech, May 19, 1921, in which he denied that America had altruistic motives in en entering the World War. He was an "unofficial observer" for the United States at various European conferences.

HAYS, WILL H., resigned as Postmaster-General, March, 1922, to become director of the National Motion Pictures Association.

HERRICK, MYRON T., appointed ambassador to France again, April, 1921. BIRTH CONTROL HUGHES, CHARLES EVANS. (See UNITED STATES, 1921-1922: FOREIGN AFFAIRS.) KENYON, WILLIAM S., was elected leader of the farm bloc in the Senate, 1921. On Jan. 31, 1922, he was appointed U. S.

Circuit Judge by President Harding.

LANDIS, KENESAW MOUNTAIN, resigned as judge of the Federal District Court, Feb. 18, 1922. He had been severely condemned by the American Bar Association for remaining on the bench after accepting the position of baseball commissioner. MONTAGU, EDWIN S., was forced to resign as Secretary of State for India, following the publication of official communications with Lord Reading, Indian Viceroy.

MOORE, JOHN BASSETT, was elected a judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice, Sept. 14, 1921. PEPPER, GEORGE WHARTON, was appointed U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania, Jan. 9, 1922, succeeding Senator Penrose, deceased.

PERSHING, JOHN J., succeeded Gen.

March as Chief of Staff, U. S. Army, July 1, 1921.

RHONDDA, MARGARET HAIG, VISCOUN- TESS, became the first woman member of the British House of Lords, March 2, 1922.

SCHURMAN, JACOB GOULD, was appointed U. S. Minister to China, May 17, 1921.

SIMS, WILLIAM SOWDEN, in a speech at London, June 7, 1921, made references to Sinn Fein sympathizers among American citizens, whom he charged with having the blood of American and English soldiers on their hands. He was ordered home by Secretary of the Navy Denby and publicly reprimanded, June 24.

TAFT, WILLIAM H., was appointed Chief Justice of the United States, June 30, 1921, assuming the duties of his office in October.

WOOD, LEONARD, was appointed Governor-General of the Philippine Islands, Oct. 5, 1921, resigning his Major-Generalship in the U. S. Army to accept the post. (See also PHILIPPINE ISLANDS; WOOD-FORBES REPORT.)