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...minded, is now intent on moving into the U. S., plans to begin by sending its fibres to the U. S., eventually will build U. S. factories. U. S. representatives are the big New York firm of Meyer & Marks Yarn Co. Inc., whose president, Jack W. Block, likes to assert that lanital will do to the wool business what rayon had done to the silk. U. S. woolmen, absorbed with more immediate troubles (see p. 75) last week produced no retort to this other than the findings year and half ago published in the bulletin of the National Association...
...trouble with the schools and colleges is that they have never really escaped from the effects of the "hard necessities of the pioneer days and the stern philosophy of the early Puritans," the educators assert...
...London, a Chancery Justice heard the Negus' counsel stoutly assert: "I hope to satisfy your Lordship that the plaintiff is still the Emperor of Ethiopia. . . . He is so recognized by the British Government." But the court postponed decision on the case in which British Cable & Wireless Ltd. denies it owes the Emperor $50,000 for the maintenance in Ethiopia of a radio station for duplex radiotelegraphic service between Britain, Ethiopia, instead claims that the money now reverts to the King of Italy...
...Prosecutor Hammond Edward Chaffetz, 30, who has been with the Department of Justice since graduation from Harvard Law School seven years ago, tried to forestall the obvious plan of the defense to shoulder all blame on the New Deal. Prosecutor Chaffetz asked Judge Stone to forbid the defense to assert that its practices had Government approval unless they could produce letters from President Roosevelt or Secretary of the Interior Ickes to substantiate the assertion...
...than older Russians with memories of how things used to be-was gravely slowing down Soviet industrial production last week. The Moscow censor even passed a dispatch announcing: "Bolshevik leaders no longer deny that the drop in industrial output is a result of the extensive replacements of personnel. They assert, however, that the drop is temporary and that the replacements were necessary to regear the apparatus thoroughly...