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...vice president who does things is Julio A. Roca of Argentina. He went to London nine months ago to negotiate a special trade agreement necessitated by the Ottawa Conference's preference of Dominion meat for British markets, and to discuss foreign exchange. British firms have great sums frozen in Argentine banks through foreign exchange regulations. Before he left England, Vice President Roca sat down with President Walter Runciman of the British Board of Trade and initialed a treaty including an agreement whereby British firms anxious to get their money out of Argentina may buy with their blocked pesos...
...More credible was this straight political reasoning: Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, national and State chairman of the Democracy, was out with his Bronx ally, New York's Secretary of State Edward Joseph Flynn, to crush Tammany and bring New York City into President Roosevelt's political dominion through Mr. Flynn's longtime protege McKee. Mr. McKee's hesitancy before he finally decided to run was attributed by his friends to his ill-health, a revelation which his age (44) and general appearance of pepticity made hard to believe. The McKee record is an extraordinary...
...gleaming Canada House-the Dominion's splendiferous sandstone outpost facing London's Trafalgar Square -representatives of the Big Four wheat exporting powers (U. S., Canada, Australia and Argentina) bickered in exasperation last week with a Soviet Russian, bland, obstinate Comrade Abraham Gourevitch...
...Japan . . . has driven a strategic wedge of Japanese dominion between the two American island possessions, the Philippines and the Hawaiian Islands...
...summer prospectors have been scouring the Dominion of Newfoundland for gold. Prospectors and syndicates have staked hundreds of square miles of claims. Following reports of rich strikes, small steamships and airplanes have been carrying eager men and supplies into the wilderness in gold rush fashion. Excited, the Dominion government hired Professor Alfred Kitchener Snelgrove of Princeton, and F. W. Foote, Manhattan mining engineer, to make an expert survey. Last week the Government released the first section of their report. Messrs. Snelgrove & Foote said that it was not unlikely gold would be found, added-like a douche of cold water-that...