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...fact about Kuhn, Loeb today is that of its eleven partners only two were members of the firm prior to 1928: Felix Warburg, elected 1896, now active only in an advisory capacity, whose chief concern today is with the long tier of filing cabinets containing the desiers of his numberless charities which stand behind his desk in the K. L. office; Otto Kahn, elected 1897, diplomat of the firm, whose numerous public and private appearances, not to mention ill health, have in recent years reduced his time...
Normally this clause, which figures in numberless trade treaties, has been a blanket clause. When states A and B signed a most-favored-nation treaty each pledged that it would grant to the other all trade favors (such as lower tariff rates) which it might grant to any third state. Last week France and Germany agreed that such treatment shall no longer apply to all but hereafter only to specified items of trade. Clearly this opens the way to unlimited trade haggling between states. It was said in Berlin last week that France urged and won the new interpretation...
Next day, confident that he had won the good will of numberless Favored Sons, Governor Vazquez Vela was ready for 5,000 ill-favored men, women & children who hunger-marched into Jalapa crying, "Bread and Shelter!" As the pleading throng approached the Governor's Palace police rushed forth, clubbed them back, jailed 60, drove the rest out of Jalapa...
...Expulsion from the Party bars a Russian from all the higher offices of State, deprives him of numberless special privileges, subjects him to social ostracism, means that he will almost certainly lose his job and may starve to death...
That conditions in the Gran Chaco have provided an excuse for war these many years, everyone knows, incidents of provocation on both sides being numberless. Specifically the Bolivian Government alleged last week that on June 29 and on July 15 some Paraguayans shot & killed some Bolivians in the disputed territory...