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Poland Into Greatness? Signed at Versailles integrally with the main treaty was the Polish Minority Treaty, vesting in the League authority to compel the Polish Government to give adequate protection to Jews and other "minority peoples" in Poland. Without success Poland has several times urged the Great Powers to put their minority peoples under similar protection. Last week Colonel Beck arose to rasp: "Pending the bringing into force of a general and uniform system for the protection of minorities, my Government finds itself compelled to refuse, as from today, all co-operation with international organizations [i. e. the League...
...forbidding them to make public their findings as to the causes of individual disasters. Last week that system was changed when President Roosevelt approved an amendment to the Air Commerce Act of 1926, giving the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce power to hold public hearings, subpoena witnesses, compel testimony under oath. In case of serious or fatal injury, publication of the Department's findings is made mandatory...
...Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities had refused to allow a 4-to-1 stock split. Selling quickly spread to other public utility shares, helped precipitate the Crash. ¶Nine months after Manhattan's Hardman National Bank & Trust Co. closed last year, the Federal Government brought suit to compel the 19 members of the New York Clearing House Association to cover a $6,300,000 deficit in the bank's funds. The Government charged that the Clearing House members had promised Harriman Bank officers that they would not let the bank fail. Last week nine Clearing House members, including...
...strange contrast to the vigorous, vibrant creature the public remembered on the screen. She has been bedridden and confined to a dark room for two years, the result, she claims, of some tropical disease which she contracted while producing the picture in Africa. Would the courts, she pleaded, compel Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Trader Horn's producers, to give her $1,000,000 in a hurry so that she could get treatment in the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London? Her plea brought out her obscure history before & after the flamboyant acclaim...
...triple Godsend to John Llewellyn Lewis. First it enabled him to "organize" coal fields that had not been unionized, to increase the members of his United Mine Workers from 300,000 to 650,000 in a few months. Second, NRA provided a new force to compel coal operators to raise wages and shorten hours -as General Johnson did fortnight ago to prevent a strike in the soft coal fields. Last week, as a third blessing, NRA provided Mr. Lewis with a new and bigger stage for his oratorical genius. Orator Demosthenes practiced speaking with a mouthful of pebbles. Orator Lewis...