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...accuse the Minister of Finance Poincare of lacking in generosity. . . ." M. Poincaré then pointed out that he had "generously" included in the budget the customary appropriation for pensions. Next, bold, he virtually dared the Chamber to force the resignation of his Government, saying: It is of little import for me if a ministerial crisis should discharge me from a position of some disquietude. What is in jeopardy here is not the fate of the Government, but national prosperity. It is not for or against the Government that the Chamber is going to vote, but for or against the budget...
...would be as futile to dwell on the necessity of winning tomorrow's classic as it would be to admit of any philosophical apathy toward its results. Races, after all, are for the purpose of being won Whether or not Harvard wins tomorrow is of no great import as regards the years to come or even next year, but since only one side can win, and since the winning will bring to both participants and adherents considerably more pleasure than the alternate state,--may the best crew triumph and may our crew be the better crew...
Underground Motif. Among potent U. S. import-export houses information circulated last week, that the German delegation at Geneva has been instructed to sound out the U. S. delegation upon the possibility of an understanding between the U. S. Administration and the German chemical and other trusts. Prospectively the question will be asked whether lower U. S. tariffs can possibly be obtained on certain German goods, in return for favors of an equal value to U. S. businessmen from the German trusts...
World Wheat Pool Conference. As so often happens to movements of profound significance and wide import, the world conference at Kansas City, Mo., last week of 200 men carrying on great wheat pools received little mention in the daily press. Nine western states of this country already have wheat pools in operation.* Their representatives were at Kansas City. So too were chiefs of the pools of Canada, Australia, Russia, Italy. From South America, Great Britain and elsewhere came messages approving the aims of this conference?to control the price throughout the world of wheat produced by no matter what country...
...them were led by Professors Carrer, M. T. Copeland, and Walker. The average attendance at these meetings was twenty. An interesting group. The Quarter Century, continued on this year as last with T. E. Terrill 2G, as chairman. The four topics discussed by this group were of timely import, the problems facing the turn of the second quarter of the twentieth century...