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...logical solutions of India's food problem as rationing, the British Raj was failing to apprehend and punish large hoarders. Yet last week, on the 13th anniversary of a declaration of Indian independence still unrealized, the Raj arrested some 200 demonstrators, while Mohandas Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, framer and proclaimer respectively of the declaration, remained in custody...
...Foreign Minister, arrived after a day's stop off at Sofia, where he tried to thaw out Bulgaria's lingering coldness to the other Balkan powers, most of whom have stolen territory from her. M. Saracoglu, veteran of a recent three-week diplomatic scuffle at Moscow and framer of the Turkish-Allied military alliance, was accused of unnecessary bluntness before he left Ankara. He publicly said what everybody knew privately anyway-that "our country is not neutral, but is merely out of the war." Rumor had it that the Foreign Minister was cooking up a deal between Bulgaria...
Never disparaged was Gouverneur Morris' earlier record. He was spokesman at 26 for Washington at the Continental Congress; brilliant assistant to the "financier of the Revolution," Robert Morris (no kin); leading framer and "stylist" of the Constitution; first U. S. minister to France. But his name has come down as the "notorious aristocrat" who intrigued with Louis XVI against the French Revolution; who deliberately let his archenemy, Tom Paine, rot in Luxembourg Prison; who speculated in U. S. lands, wheat, tobacco, the public debt...
...public. Yet the most important fact about Painter Max Kuehne is that he has paid his bills, kept off relief, put a son through college and furnished a comfortable Manhattan apartment because a dozen famed collectors and nearly as many museums consider him the best picture framer...
...only brought the leaders of Congress into the Lincoln Study but considerable Congressional atmosphere. First to hop to his feet with an objection during the recitation of the domestic fiscal program was small Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury and a framer of the Federal Reserve Act. In the matter of broadening the basis of discountable paper through the Federal Reserve to thaw frozen assets which are causing distress, particularly in Western banks, Senator Glass reminded one & all that such a plan was now under consideration by the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency, warned against...