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Press censorship was clamped down on all references to the scandal. Several footless efforts were made to prop up the sagging company. Last week came the end when Phönix-Wien disbanded, three directors were arrested, and from its ashes rose a new insurance company called Austrian Insurance Co. Ltd., capitalized at only $2,000,000. Foreign Phönix policyholders will have to stand their loss. The new company hopes to save Austrian policies with a 5% premium rise, a special tax on other Austrian insurance companies...
...Senator Robinson might have saved his breath. In an election year the U. S. Senate would grant itself the benefit of any reasonable doubt. With Senators from the industrial Northeast voicing a footless "No," the farm bill was thumped through the Senate, 56-to-20, sent to the House...
...mysterious backers (TIME, Sept. 9) was universally called by statesmen and financiers last week a "nigger trick." Anything but smart was this dusky African potentate's pathetic belief that President Roosevelt would defend Ethiopia against Italy as a result of the midnight signing of the Rickett concession. Equally footless was his loss of temper in accusing Secretary Hull of "gross misjudgment." This petulant error Chargé d'Affaires Engert erased by denying the assertions of the Emperor's own entourage that he expressed himself in violent terms. According to Diplomat Engert the Emperor merely voiced "regret" that Standard...
...about April 1, to rove for the Times wherever he chooses for as long as he chooses. Fourteen years of alert, thoroughgoing work in Russia have made him the Times' most valuable foreign correspondent, but hard Muscovite winters and office routine have frayed his nerves, pained his footless leg. His successor will be able Harold Norman Dennv, longtime TIME...
College basketball produces no national champion. A winter sport which in some parts of the U. S. amounts to a seasonal hysteria, it is played almost entirely within regional leagues. The argument of each league that it has the best team in the land is more footless than most such controversies, since the strongest teams play on courts of different sizes under rules differently interpreted...