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...will devote ourselves to fulfilling it." Meanwhile boycotted foreign shipping men devoted themselves to energetic protests. Both the U. S. and British embassies in Berlin started battling with the Foreign Exchange Control Bureau which stubbornly upheld the boycott last week. Hinting at possible U. S. reprisals, Vice President Basil Harris of U. S. Lines declared: "About 83% of the transatlantic trade today is of American origin. Any German policy which would restrict American trade would automatically react to the detriment of Germany. We hope Germany can see her folly before it has harmed her and harmed...
...largely underwritten by France and Britain in the belief that the Dollfuss Government is the sheet anchor of peace in Eastern Europe. Last week in Berlin peppery French Ambassador André Francois-Poncet left a stiff note at the Foreign Office and bland British Chargé d' Affaires Basil Newton protested verbally that German Nazi efforts to overthrow the Dollfuss Government are contrary to Germany's obligations under the Treaty of Versailles and more especially to the Four-Power Peace Pact recently signed in Rome by Britain, France, Italy and Germany (TIME, June 19). As one dictator...
...Lateran Treaty, Cardinal Gasparri has pen in hand, treaty before him. With a stout finger he points-here; a prelate points-there; he points back - here; and signs. The Shepherd of the Seven Hills is accompanied throughout with choir-singing and the unctuous voice of Radio Narrator Basil Ruysdael...
...John James Elaine, onetime Republican Senator from Wisconsin, to the board of Reconstruction Finance Corp. Other appointments: Massachusetts' John H. Fahey, onetime president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, to the Home Loan Bank Board; New Hampshire's Raymond B. Stevens to the Federal Trade Commission; Basil Manly, onetime investigator for the Senate, to the Federal Power Commission...
...Senate committee was told that on May 15 Richard B. Bevier had come to Mr. Howe with an introductory letter from Basil O'Connor, the President's one-time law partner. After inspecting Mr. Bevier's toilet kits (comb, toothbrush, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush holder, brush. soap box, mirror, shaving cream, razor, razor blades), Secretary Howe asked Budget Director Douglas to come over and have a look at them. Director Douglas was busy, sent a subordinate named Lowery. Instructing Lowery to investigate the cost and quality of the product as compared with the kits the Army was already...