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...Committee decided that a bonus bill would be reported and then fell to quarreling as to what form the bonus would take. The old form of bill with its alternative of insurance, vocational training, farm and home aid, etc., appeared to have been thrown into the discard. Insurance-probably paid up endowment insurance-will apparently be the main feature of the bill. The Democrats took a new angle by demanding a cash alternative. No proposal of this kind has been before Congress in two years on account of the difficulty of meeting immediate payment. Representative Garner, Democratic leader...
...experts will digress somewhat from their chosen fields today in Phillips Brooks House. At 7.45 o'clock the Right Reverend Charles Henry Brent, Bishop of Western New York, will discard the usual subjects of theologians and will speak on another subject in which he is well versed. "An Inside view of the League of Nations" will be his topic. At 4.30 o'clock in the afternoon Professor Theodore Lyman will talk on "Faith and Modern Physical Theory" as the second of the three Science and Religion talks...
After 60 days of labor, the Greater Tokyo Reconstruction Board decided to discard plans for a magnificent new Tokyo, advised by Dr. Charles A. Beard, director of the New York Training School for Public Service. At the same time it was announced that only $250,000,000 is to be spent on reconstruction instead of the $3,500,000,000 originally planned...
...some time during the game. Both men started against Princeton two weeks ago, and both were carried from the field with injuries during the game. In the past week however, the two backs have been recovering rapidy. Both men were at practice yesterday, in street clothes, but both will discard their canes and report for hard work again this afternoon...
...crux of the situation lay in the question: Is Greece to have a Republican constitution? Advised by Britain, Yugo-Slavia and Rumania not to discard the present dynasty on account of its important connections with the Balkan Powers,* Dictator Colonel Gonatas and his Government tried to quiet down the opposition by abolishing the press censorship, promising the abolition of martial law after the trial of those arrested in a recent revolt, appointing Foreign Minister Apostolos Alexandris as delegate on the Reparations Commission. Republican sentiment, however, refused to be appeased so easily and the clamor for a change...