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...hours bickering and dickering with representatives of a syndicate of four Canadian banks. Was it a sale? Next day in Montreal, Canada, where most of Newfoundland's fiscal news breaks first, eager newshawks pounced on Sir Percy Thompson, deputy chairman of the British Board of Inland Revenue recently "loaned" to Newfoundland. Waving away all question of the sale or lease of Labrador, Sir Percy announced that a loan (he would not say how much) had been extended to Newfoundland by the four Canadian banks: Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Montreal, Bank of Nova Scotia and the Canadian Bank...
...settle an ancient argument between farmers with poultry and fine gentlemen with horses and hounds, Virginia's Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries last week set aside $500 and made an announcement : The next 500 foxes killed in Virginia will be sent to the Commission, their stomachs examined, the question settled, once & for all, of just what a fox does...
...truck regulation by the I. C. C. Wet bills, including a constitutional amendment by Connecticut's Tilson to return liquor control to the States, glutted both houses. Texas' Blanton touched a Dry low by seriously advocating the use of the Army, Navy, Militia, Shipping Board, and Inland Waterways Corp. for enforcement...
...Nile, headquarters for all Egyptian explorations; Abydos, lower down; Sakkara and Cairo, at the delta; in Asia Minor, Megiddo, on the Jordan; Calneh, at the Eastern tip of the Mediterranean. Leaving the crescent, an offshoot expedition has settled in Alishar, halfway between the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Inland on the Tigris is the Khorsabad expedition, near the site of Nineveh; down the Tigris in ancient Babylonia, the neighboring expeditions at Tell Asmar and Khafaji. From these strategic points the Oriental Institute can send out small parties to other sites. Thus it has at its finger tips the whole of Asia...
While Storrs snored in his big bed in Government House, in the inland capital of Nicosia, chattering Greeks (who never seem to go to bed) worked themselves up to riot. Some were inflamed by Orthodox priests who told of a "fiery cross" raised against British rule on the heights of Limassol two nights before. According to the priests, the Orthodox Patriarch of Cyprus (who jealously guards his 1,000-year-old right to sign his name in red ink) had proclaimed the end of British rule and the union of Cyprus with Greece "because the people will...