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...these circumstances to appoint Lord Linlithgow the next Viceroy of India, so that he might expertly install and adjust the new Constitution to its 350,000,000 souls, seemed quite the most obvious and also quite the wisest decision taken last year by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in what was otherwise his Year of Bumbles. But would the Indian people take either to the Constitution or to Linlithgow? When he arrived in Bombay there was not a single native newspaper which did not oppose the Constitution, and the earliest date by which Britons dared hope to put it into effect...
...most important act, the new Bank of France set-up was its sharpest stab of lèse majeste against the entrenched French ruling class. Abolished henceforth are the Regents elected by the 200 biggest stockholders representing the so-called "200 Families." Instead, various branches of the Government appoint 16 Regents, the savings banks another, the Bank's employes "secretly elect" still another and two Regents are chosen by all the Bank's 40,000 stockholders, each having one vote, regardless of his holdings...
Last December Postmaster General Farley learned that Postmistress Harrington's term was due to expire in January, listened sympathetically to a Highland Falls, N. Y. bigwig who wished to appoint a deserving female Democrat in her stead. The news leaked out. Opposition from all quarters, especially from U. S. Army officials, who considered her post inviolate from patronage, forced "General" Farley to drop his candidate. Last fortnight the Army and Navy Journal charged that James A. Farley was still out to oust Postmistress Harrington...
...profits in excess of 10% with the Government and must pay its men wages approved by the Authority. Concerning the act as a whole, most shipping men were enthusiastic. Almost all agreed, however, that its effectiveness will depend upon the calibre of the five men President Roosevelt must appoint to the Maritime Authority within the next 90 days...
...said "secured" he meant, in this instance, "secured." They staffed and supported the protective committee of Mr. Murphy and another formed by Bainbridge Colby and Samuel Untermeyer. These committees sent lawyers to Stockholm, verified the existence of collateral for the debentures, petitioned the Supreme Court of Massachusetts to appoint for its safekeeping a New York trustee. They fought the claims brought by the creditors of International Match and Swedish Match, which alone remained in business, against the dubious assets of Kreuger & Toll. When it appeared that Swedish law might defeat them, they persuaded the other two groups to participate...