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...armaments (see p. 14). Armies were to be cut one-third above necessary "police components." All tanks, large mobile guns and bombing planes were to be abolished along with chemical warfare and poison gas. Battleship fleets were to be cut one-third, cruiser, destroyer and aircraft carrier tonnage onefourth. No nation was to have more than 35,000 tons of submarine. The President raised his voice emphatically to declare: "The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhelming burden of armament which now lies upon the toilers...
Left. By the late Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, president of Campbell Soup Co.: $1 14,850,733; to his wife, Mrs. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance ($100,000, life interest in one-fourth the estate); his son John Thompson Jr. (life interest in onefourth); his four daughters, Ethel, Margaret, Charlotte, Mrs. Nathaniel Peter Hill (the remaining half) ; all to be held in trust until the majority of John Thompson...
...were Drs. John D. Long and Clifford Rush Eskey. Bubonic plague, the Black Death, has been one of man's most terrific scourges. In the 14th Century it killed 13,000,000 people in China, 24,000,000 in the rest of the East, 25,000,000 (onefourth of the population) in Europe. Its horror is recorded in Daniel DeFoe's Journal of the Plague Year, 1665, when 70,000 died in London. In 1630, 80,000 perished in Milan. Between 1896 and 1917 it killed 10,000,000 over the world. Although San Francisco...
...Under the guidance of Republican principles the American people have become the richest nation in the world"-richer than England and all her colonies, than France and Germany combined, . . . "onefourth of the world's wealth...
...been president of the Reichsbank since 1924. He is a stern man to deal with, imperturbable and ruthless in carrying out a fiscal program. Only seven weeks ago, when German speculators were running wild, he passed put instructions that loans to Berlin stock market operators be instantly reduced by onefourth. There was panic on the Berlin Bourse (TIME...