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...widely anticipated last week by House leaders who declared they could not stop the stampede for the veteran vote. After the tax bill is disposed of, the Ways & Means Committee will consider a measure of Texas' Patman to pay the bonus in full by issuing two billion dollars in fiat money. Last week Congressman Patman declared that, with the election coming on. President Hoover would not "dare'' veto his bill...
George V and Premier MacDonald gave no sign last week as to what, if anything, they propose to do about Lord Strickland and Malta which, in 1930, became so incensed against Strickland that its Constitution was suspended and its Legislature dissolved by Imperial fiat...
...powered by Rolls-Royce motors, which are believed to be capable of achieving 400 m.p.h. In external design, they resemble the planes which won the Cup for England in 1929. The Italian planes, Macchi-designed, are intended to do better than 400 m.p.h.; each has two 1,500 h.p. Fiat motors, two propellers set in tandem. About the French planes, little is known except that they have been reported as surpassing 400 m.p.h. in secret trials. A British victory this year would give England permanent possession of the Schneider...
...have States and municipalities issue 25-year non-interest bearing bonds to be deposited with the Federal Government which in turn would give the local governments 99? on $1 for public works. Eight times has Mr. Coxey got his bill for the Treasury to issue fiat money introduced in Congress, eight times has it failed of enactment. Declares "General" Coxey: "The American people are still as dumb as beetles." But last week old Mr. Coxey did not think Massillon Republicans were so dumb. They gave him 2,983 votes and nominated him for Mayor over two rivals, one of them...
...Author. Though young (29), "Daniel-Rops" (a pseudonym) has written four books, has won two prizes. His first, Notre inquietude, won the Paul Fiat; l'Ame obscure took second place in the Goncourt; Two Men in Me (Deux homines en moi) won last year's Gringoire Prize. He is a professor of literature at a French University...