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Newspapers throughout Belgium were forbidden to so much as mention the danger everyone feared. Wiseacres with cash rushed to buy stocks, real estate and then, as trading markets soared, began to jam Belgian stores...
...little Berkshire village of Cookham Dean was a comfortable little house called The Twigs, which belonged to a Mrs. Skrine. Mrs. Skrine also had a Cook-General, a button-nosed treasure of an orphan girl named Edith Saville who was excellent at making jam and bottling fruits. Mrs. Skrine moved away from Cookham Dean, and lent Edith the General to Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Frederick Churchill Sim who lived 100 yards down the road in a house called Old Barton. Later Mrs. Skrine sold The Twigs to a Mr. & Mrs. Stretch, who promptly renamed it Applewood. Under any name Edith...
...have been made between the President and New York's Senator Wagner, who exacted in exchange the Administration's support for his Labor Relations Bill. Within a week observers expected that the Relief Bill would be on the President's desk and that the Congressional jam which has held up all important New Deal legislation for the past ten weeks would be definitely cracked...
...Electric sold an issue of 3½s. When Swift officials reported that the 50-page registration was no more troublesome than an oldtime prospectus, Chairman Kennedy, happy as only a Boston Irishman can be, exulted: "This issue is very good evidence that at least the breaking of the jam is starting. It is a marvelous step in the right direction...
Next step by "Mitch," the grinning Premier declared last week, will be to jam through Ontario's Legislature a New Deal depriving the King's representative of his official house and home. "There is nothing personal about this," said Premier Hepburn. "I don't wish my action to be construed as a discourtesy to Dr. Bruce...