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...heels of the distillers' code came the importers' marketing agreement. Article III of this agreement provided for minimum import quotas based on the peak years 1910-14, in which the U. S. bought overseas some 4,000,000 gal. of spirits, some 7,000,000 gal. of wine yearly. No restrictions were placed on the number of U. S. importing firms, but the total business was to be distributed by FACA according to "legitimate trade needs" of individual houses...
Something of great import to all Cuba leaked out of President Roosevelt's Warm Springs swimming pool last week: able Ambassador Sumner Welles, known to be antipathetic to the Grau San Martin regime, was about to be withdrawn. By midnight the rumor became certainty with an official announcement from the President. Ambassador Welles was to be succeeded by Assistant Secretary of State Jefferson Caffery. But. as a direct snub to the Grau Government, Mr. Welles was to return to Havana for a brief period, still U. S. Ambassador. When Mr. Caffery succeeds him it will be as an unofficial...
...self-sufficient, they called for ?600,000 worth of machinery for beet-sugar factories at Mallow, Thurles and Tuam. German and Czechoslovak companies got the contracts in exchange for promises to buy more Irish farm products. When the three new plants are operating next autumn, the Free State need import no more sugar. Next problems: grain, clothing, paper, machinery, chemical products. Insoluble...
...charged that "General Chan" once cashed a $10,000 check intended as payment for German pistols that were never delivered. Since U. S. citizens enjoy extraterritorial rights in China, the arrest was not made until the U. S. consul had formally charged General Chan Hall with "engaging in illegal import of firearms...
...Alexander the import of the message was unmistakable, and he insisted on examining Pharos. He found the situation most favorable, and to the infinite exasperation of his architects and engineers, he commanded that the original plans be abandoned, that new be drawn and executed for the island. "Homer," remarked the Emperor Alexander smugly, was a "very good architect, besides his other excellencies." There is more to the story, very dryly told by Plutarch. This morning at eleven Professor Jackson will lecture on Homer from a point of view somewhat more aesthetic than that of the militarist, Alexander...