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...three have been girls (one has died). It was also of personal importance to two charming young people, Crown Prince Chichibu, the Emperor's eldest brother, and Crown Princess Setsuko. Although married for more than two years, they have been obliged by rigid etiquet to have no children, lest they should have a son discourteously ahead of the Emperor. Thus with the greatest national and most exquisitely personal regret it was learned that the babe born last week is another girl. She was at once presented with a short sword, nine and one-half inches long, a symbolic gift...
...Lest the Treasury's embargo look like a political discrimination against Russia, the State Department last week instructed its consuls throughout the world to report on convict-made goods in their respective areas with a view to including other countries in the embargo. Complaint by U. S. tobacco producers, feeling the pinch of competition, that-Sumatra cigar wrappers from the Dutch East Indies were convict-grown caused the Treasury to start investigating. Under, study also were rubber imports from slave-ridden Liberia, phosphates from Morocco...
...Princeton N. J. last week, Charles Augustus Lindbergh announced that his widely announced tour of South America would be postponed for several months. Reason: lest it be construed he was going as a rival attraction...
...Lest Finns think the new Prohibition commission a mere pre-election gesture President Relander finished off the week by approving a bill to increase the alcoholic content of beer from 1.6% to 2.25% by weight (2.80% by content),* sent the bill on its way to the Diet where a somewhat similar measure was defeated six weeks...
Judge Corrigan had just visited Bedford Reformatory, questioned its inmates and returned to the city satisfied that all the girls deserved to be where they were. But John J. Bennett Jr., the State's young new Attorney General, released the 48 (and three more who could not travel) lest the State be guilty of sequestering young innocents...