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...Massachusetts House of Representatives. Mr. Saltonstall will speak on an unannounced subject relating to "The Role of Government in the National Economy"--the title of this year's Conference. The luncheon will be attended by approximately 130 people and will break up in time for the meeting to adjourn to the Faculty Club where the first sessions of the five round tables will be held...
Senator Wheeler had trouble getting at the Stock Exchange's private files until last week when that institution suddenly swamped him with so much material that he had to adjourn for a week to digest it. Before adjournment, however, he unearthed a memorandum to the Exchange's listing committee from John Minor Botts Hoxsey. its listing expert. Last week the Stock Exchange honored Mr. Hoxsey by making him a full-fledged member of the listing committee, invited him to sit in on meetings of the governing committee. It appeared from his writings, however, that the Exchange could have...
...failed to send a representative to the conference if pressed to do so by the British Government, the main point of the London gathering last week was that no Portuguese appeared. Soon the 26 nations agreed with Mr. William Shepherd Morrison that the best thing to do was to adjourn until he decides that "sufficient data" has been gathered for another meeting to take place...
...this someone had the happy thought of inducing the Montreux Conference to adjourn until next month, after the League meetings, and the 7th Earl Stanhope sped from Montreux to Geneva to tell "Tony" Eden how things stood. Dictator Benito Mussolini long since refused to send an Italian delegate to Montreux "until after sanctions are lifted." Last week the Italian Press, pointing out that Italian commercial tonnage is the heaviest through the straits, declared that obviously no solution at Montreux not approved by Italy could stand. At this the Turkish Press of Dictator Kamâl Atatürk exclaimed what...
...after long illness, died A. Piatt Andrew, onetime (1910-12) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, since 1921 a U. S. Representative. He was the tenth Representative, the 14th member of the 74th Congress to die. When the House met at noon that day, it would have been customary to adjourn at once in tribute to the dead colleague. But Congress was straining for adjournment by week's end, and the conventional amenities were postponed for nearly three hours by routine business. Then Massachusetts' Treadway arose to present a resolution of adjournment. "Mr. Speaker," cried he to Speaker Joseph...