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...fell to the lot of Wesley Livsey Jones, Republican Senator from Washington, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee and official senatorial sponsor of the Harding subsidy plan of a year ago, to introduce in the Senate some suitable plan. His plan is represented by two bills for rendering indirect aid to the hard-pressed American merchant marine...
...plot, briefly, is as follows: Rosaura and Beatrice, daughters of Doctor Balanzoni, are courted respectively by Florindo, a medical student living in the doctor's house, and by Ottavio, a gentleman of Padua. Florindo's timidity, however, prevents him from declaring his love except by indirect methods. He causes Rosaura to be serenaded by hired musicians, sends her, anonymously, a gift of lace; and composes a poem setting forth his love, but containing only vague hints of his identity. Instead of handing her the verses himself, he throws them on her balcony...
...might entail loss to the holders of railroad securities. According to the Interstate Commerce Commission there were 777,132 railroad stockholders on Dec. 31, 1922. The bondholders are even more numerous, and include, as has often been pointed out, many savings banks. So actually millions of people are indirect holders of railroad securities...
...Last week it was stated in TIME, in connection with the Tarafa railroad bill, that "in Cuba it is sometimes said that . . . the Rockefeller-Morgan interests run the railroads." The firm of J.P. Morgan & Co. now states that it has "no interest, direct or indirect, in the Tarafa railroad bill and has not supported...
...official reports were received. From Shanghai came indirect information of the disaster, and disaster was the one sure truth. A quake of unparalleled severity, fire, tidal waves, famine, explosives, hundreds of thousands of houses wrecked, hundreds of thousands of people killed?fact and fiction were woven in a horrible fabric of destruction and death...