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Supply & Demand. The pleasing posi-tion of copper may well be contrasted with the less pleasing position of oil. Oil has notably suffered from overproduction. Copper has neatly adjusted its supply to its demand...
...Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, long an insurgent, exclaimed, "We will not go into past regrets." Representative Charles A. Christopherson, farm-relief advocate, announced that all doubt concerning a third term had been swept away. The President made no speeches, no promises, receded not an inch from the posi-tion he took in vetoing the McNary-Haugen farm-relief bill (TIME, March 7). But the honor of his presence, the potency of his office, turned suspicion into acclamation as hostility succumbed to hospitality. Should South Dakota love the President in November as it does in June, the state...
...short time, he was Foreign Commissar; but, early in 1918, he be came Commissar of War or Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army, a posi tion which he held until last February. The dominating trait of his character is energy. One week he was in Siberia, another at Moscow, another at Sevastapol. Always was he on the move. His discipline made that of the Tsars a sort of mother's love and it was said that every officer and soldier went in terror of his life. So much for his efficiency...
...maintain that the real enemies of the Constitution and the real menace to American Government are those un punished agents of corruption who have despoiled the public domain and betrayed the people, who have written the blackest page in the history of our Government from their high Cabinet posi tions, and who, it must be said to the shame of the country, have gone to this hour without Executive rebuke...
Died. Horace M. Kilborn, 57, retired senior Vice President of the National City Bank of New York, of heart disease in Manhattan. He rose from a bank runner to a posi-tion in which he was one of the leading bankers in the group who brought relief to the money market in 1907. In one of the Liberty Loan campaigns he was said to have raised $10,000,000 in 36 hours...