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...wheat prices have led to considerable curtailment of the farmers' plantings. This year's cold and rainy Spring has had the further important effect of considerably retarding the crops, and in consequence the Government's condition estimates are placed at very low figures. For Winter wheat, con dition is estimated at only 74% - the lowest since 1917 when the figure of 70.9 was reached. Even worse is the estimate of condition of Spring wheat at 82.3-lower than any year for twelve years, and considerably under the 88.2 figure of 1916. Acreages have also been reduced sharply...
...Coolidge presided at an oratorical contest in which five boys and two girls gave orations on the American Constitution. Four Justices of the Supreme Court were judges of the con-test-Van Devanter, Butler, Sutherland, Sanford. First prize ($3,500) was awarded to Don Tyler of Los Angeles. In his prolegomena, the President said: "Our constitutional system has justified itself not only in our own history, but in the fact that it has been accepted as the model upon which so many later experiments in democratic-republican institutions have been based...
Lieutenant Thormann and Dr. Grandel, charged with plotting the murder of General von Seeckt (TIME, Jan. 28), were acquitted by a jury which stated that evidence of a serious con-spiracy was nonexistent. The German press, excepting the Nationalist journals, condemned the verdict. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung said that it "must cause painful amazement throughout the world." The year 1923 was written off the books of German banks with a sigh- of relief. No dividends were voted and many annual statements appeared with merely technical balanced debits and credits. The banks were stated, however, to be in good shape; since...
...cage, which will be one of the largest in the country when completed. The building will be 150 feet square, large enough to contain a complete infield. To indicate the height of the glass roof of the projected building, an extension ladder was roped upright in the con-center of the area which was marked off yesterday, rising nearly 60 feet into...
...ever before reached, not-withstanding it is now nearly 60 years since the close of the Civil War. A generous nation increased its pensions to well over a quarter of a billion annually, and has already bestowed nearly $6,250,000,000 in pensions upon the survivors of that con- flict and their dependents...