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...incident was referred for settlement to two commissioners of arbitration appointed under the U. S.-British liquor treaty of 1924. One was precise, deliberate Associate Justice Willis Van Devanter of the U. S. Supreme Court. The other was the Canadian Supreme Court's bland, blue-eyed, brilliant Justice Lyman Poore Duff, who relaxes for sleep with calculus problems and long corresponded in Greek with the late Lord Haldane. Years passed. Justice Duff was upped to Chief Justice of Canada. Justice Van Devanter saw burgeon in the U. S. a New Deal. Prohibition passed and the I'm Alone...
...stocking when Napoleon I founded the Bank of France, the return on investment is thus at the rate of some 30%. Such shareholders would never have fired Governor Moret. They, too. gloomed as brisk Premier Flandin popped in as the new Governor of the Bank of France last week bland M. Jean Tannery. Since 1925 and 1926 respectively, M. Jean Tannery has been dextrously managing those curious magicians' hats of French State finance, La Caisse des Dépôts and La Caisse Autonome d'Amortissement...
Asked "Why is March 22 New Year's Day in Persia?", a bland Palace official characteristically replied last week "Because it always has been...
...Bland amid Teuton bedlam was petite Miss Margot Vagi. She let other people explain that, although Japanese, she was a child of six living in the Saar in 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles took the Saar provisionally from Germany, handed it over to the League of Nations as trustee until 1935. Though Miss Yagi scarcely remembers the Saar and now lives in New York, her plebiscite qualifications are impeccable. Anyone who was a Saarlander in 1919 may vote. Disenfranchised are Saarlanders of later vintage, even though they may have lived in the Saar uninterruptedly since 1920, may have heavy...
Chinese Minister to the Court of St. James's is poetic Mr. Quo Taichi. His contribution to the London Naval parleys (TIME, Oct. 29, et seq.) to which he was not invited, is a bland little ideograph meaning "If you give naval equality to Japan you give wings to the tiger...