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...Mynatt promptly stopped work on his plant. This time National Power's preferred stockholders thought the price was too low. Mr. Mynatt went on higgling and resumed work on the plant. Fortnight ago his price was $7,500,000. Last week he went to Washington to confer with Paul Sawyer of National Power and David Lilienthal of TVA. raised his bid $400,000. At last they called it a deal. TVA puts up a third of the price, gets all T. P. S. lines outside of Knox County...
This novel argument the Commander used in presenting to the House a bill to confer Palestine citizenship upon "oppressed European Jews" who might benefit from it. For example, according to Locker-Lampson, any European Jews now being mistreated in Austria would be enabled by this bill to assume "extraterritorial citizenship in Palestine," and they could then apply in Vienna for the aid of His Britannic Majesty's consul general...
...rights in respect to Palestine, would agree that Italy also has certain rights in respect to Syria, a French mandate. As a preliminary to these far-reaching plans, the Quai d'Orsay this week announced that Premier Daladier and M. Bonnet had "gladly" accepted the British invitation to confer on the matter in London on April...
...seizing these properties one of the rights of any sovereign state-the right of expropriation. In a printed handout, Ambassador Daniels said he had been summoned by President Cárdenas, whom he found surrounded by resplendent military aides and members of his Cabinet. The Mexican President did not confer with Josephus Daniels but read off a statement which the Ambassador said he thought constituted a diplomatic note. It was flashed to President Roosevelt at Warm Springs. "I am gratified to have thus formally received this important expression of Mexico's deep friendship for my country," read the Ambassador...
...Hoover warmed to his task and, month ago, pushed on up into Austria to confer with chunky President Wilhelm Miklas. To cheering Viennese engineering students he proclaimed "Statesmen seek peace through laws and conferences, sometimes forgetting that engineers can give them the things that make peace." Nine days later, with Guest Hoover then in Poland, Austrian Host Miklas lost his job and German troops took possession of Austria...