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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graduated reduction of water diverted from the present rate of 8,500 to 1,500 cu. ft. per sec. in nine years...
Grigorie J. Sokolnikov, newly appointed Soviet Ambassador to Britain, arrived in London fortnight ago, bought a new dress suit in which to present his credentials to King George, and waited. Eight days passed. Conservatives, chuckling at a chance to embarrass the Labor Government, stood up in Parliament and loudly asked why the new Soviet Ambassador had not been received. Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson scowled...
...safe and sturdy Socialism." It provides: 1) shortening the miners' working day from eight hours to seven and one-half; 2) establishment of a "National Industrial Board" of big business and labor leaders; 3) creation of a "National Coal Marketing Board" to coordinate the whole industry and present a united front to the coal trusts of continental Europe...
...convenience sake the Panchen Lama might be called the "Buddhist Pope," and the Dalai Lama the temporal pontiff of Tibet. Just at present these two most holy persons are at outs, the Sovereign Dalai Lama holding his court at Lhasa, Tibetan capital, and the Panchen Lama roving about war-torn China with the immunity and pomp of a walking deity. In honor of this little man on whom rests the duty of maintaining Buddhist doctrines pure, an invigorating banquet was tendered by Governor-General Chang at which hot tiger's blood was drunk...
...Republic-Youngstown amalgamation, which has on several occasions appeared all but ratified, may yet be arranged, and Chicago's Inland Steel Company, in which Mr. Eaton is heavily interested, is also a potential member of the combination. The Republic group at present lacks a rail-making member-a gap which Inland would fill. Present ranking of the leading steel companies...