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Naturally the compromise just sketched in principle involves at every turn thorny factual problems which will have to be threshed out. For one thing the U. S. State Department may impair the whole arrangement by sternly advising U. S. financiers not to absorb the German bonds. For another thing Great Britain is known to be tolerably well pleased by the Reparations status quo; and Chancellor Churchill in particular has displayed reluctance to readjust his precariously balanced budget on the basis of a new arrangement with Germany...
...beating he would have to take around the head and eyes would impair him for life. I think I was lucky to have had the accident that warned me in time. And that is why you will never see me back in the ring again...
...Glen Alden Coal Co. of Buffalo and Rochester, N. Y., has made the last wash a blueing process. The idea: to make coal attractive, to give it advertising appeal under the trade name of "Blue Diamond." The dyeing process costs only three or four cents a ton, does not impair the heating power of coal...
...heart attack in 1923 left him, his friends thought, less equable of temper than before. Perhaps this contributed to his defeat for the Speakership in 1925. Failing health did not, however, impair his capacity for work. He continued at the head of the Appropriations Committee, devoting even his recesses to study...
...have chosen a new one fit to rank "among the greatest," last week, would probably have meant returning to the Woolsack the brilliant Earl of Birkenhead, who sat thereon during 1919-22, but is now Secretary of State for India. Patently Lord Birkenhead does not want to impair his chances of perhaps someday becoming Prime Minister by again withdrawing from the hot arena of politics to the lofty precincts of the Lord High Chancellor. Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call to the Lord High Chancellorship another "sound lawyer," Attorney General Sir Douglas McGarel...