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Vast issues these were; unfortunately, vast enough to goad the Rhode Island State Legislature into the game. Sniffing that old devil communism, the vigilants empowered their speaker to appoint the time honored investigating committee. With the old Brown facility for going one better, a grieved alumnus beseeched the Federal District Attorney to do his bit as Torquemada also. But the Herald, nothing daunted, rejoined in brave tones that theirs was "the higher patriotism...
Only one German felt strong enough to drive a bargain last week with Chancellor Hitler (see above). The bargain: Monkish little Dr. Hans Luther (twice Chancellor, 1925, 1926) agreed to resign as President of the Reichsbank if Chancellor Hitler would appoint him on the spot Ambassador to Washington. Both men scrupulously kept their word...
...laid down the terms. The long wrangle ended. It was agreed to furnish $5,000,000 of new capital and promptly a telegram from the Comptroller of the Currency: "Due to the many complaints registered against the plan for a new bank . . . have deemed it advisable ... to appoint conservators . . . until the confusion of thought can be eliminated...
...office one more day, I will be blamed still more. Even if I die, my death would be of no advantage to the Government nor would it improve the situation. Therefore, I ask the Government to allow me to resign as a sign of its dissatisfaction and to appoint a capable successor...
...debt-ridden farmers a somewhat different procedure was provided. Fifteen of them, all insolvent and living in the same county, could petition a Federal judge who in turn would appoint a conciliation commissioner. This official would receive the debtors' schedules, call in creditors and attempt to work out a compromise which the court would later confirm. The hitch with a farmer's debts is that he generally owes only a single creditor, the holder of the mortgage on his farm. If he refuses to dicker, the farmer is balked at the outset in producing the kind of majority...