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...lack of recognition of Liberia. As Charge d'Affaires. Mr. Hibbard had spent long days in polite palaver with Liberian kinkywigs, long nights swatting mosquitoes and tropical vermin. Finally he proposed a deal: Mr. Firestone would cut interest on his Liberian loan from 7% to 5%; Liberia would frown on the slave traffic, try to do some-thing about disease; Secretary Hull would grant diplomatic recognition and send Liberia a minister; President Barclay would accept a "foreign" (i. e. white) adviser...
Vickers is frankly a munitions firm, but huge Imperial Chemical Industries, among whose subsidiaries are six munitions firms, claims that less than 1% of its profits are from munitions. Venerable Chairman Sir John began to frown when Communist Pollitt reeled off the names of holders of I. C. I. stock as "an indictment of the Capitalist class as a whole." Outstanding names: Quaker Cocoamaker Barrow Cadbury (30,875), Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer (833 preference, 5,414 ordinary) and the Right Rev. Edward Thomas Scott Reid, Bishop of St. Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane (?2,100 in ordinary and preference...
...House Chaplain sonorously wound up his opening prayer one forenoon last week, a small frown knit the bushy brows of Speaker Joseph Wellington Byrns. The House was being criticized for its slow legislative pace-and somehow he was being held responsible (TIME, April 22). He realized that a crisis was at hand, for two spiced goblets threatened his legislative program: 1) the baseball season was scheduled to open that afternoon in Washington, and 2) members were agitating for a three-day recess over Good Friday...
Despite the fact that price-fixing- price-raising at the start-often cut into volume, reduced employment and retarded recovery, an amazing number of businessmen are still enthusiastic about it. But last fortnight S. (for Samuel) Clay Williams, NIRB Chairman, revealed that the Administration would frown on any attempt to inject price-fixing provisions into new NRA legislation, arguing that an NRA floor under wages was, in effect, a floor under prices...
...Pope frowns on all forms of contraception because they prevent the birth of children, prime purpose of Roman Catholic matrimony. A thoroughgoing realist, the Pope at the same time knows that many loving Catholics who fear to have children defy his pontifical frown. Therefore he decided that it is morally right and proper for Catholic couples to utilize the wife's monthly rhythm of sterility and fertility as a natural method of contraception...