OF WORLD-WIDE FAME
CHAIRMAN OF ECONOMIC EXPERTS COMMITTEE.
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND" CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, 12th June. Mr. Charles Gates Dawes, the Republican nominee for the Vice-Presidency, was born in Ohio in 1865, and has led a iife of picturesque activity, which included many y_ears as a lawyer, specialising as a counsellor of public utility corporations, and developing extensive gas plant projects. Mr. Dawes later entered the banking business, gaining an.appointment as Comptroller of Currency under the M'Kinley Administration in 1898, after' which he resumed private • banking until America's entry into, the world war.' He served in France as chairman of the General Purchasing Board which furnished supplies to the American forces. His fame became world-wide after the publication of the reparations report by the Dawes Committee, o! 'which he was chairman.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 7
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