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...violation of both the Nine Power Treaty and League of Nations commitments. What the U.S. action did was to encourage the British Government to put brakes on further concessions to Japan. The Tokyo talks between Negotiators Sir Robert and Arita reached a crucial stage. Japan demanded as the price of raising the Tientsin blockade that Great Britain cease supporting Chinese currency and turn over to her the Chinese silver stocks deposited in British Concessions. On this point Mr. Chamberlain has said that he would never yield. Last week, with the U.S. throwing a scare into the Japanese, concession seemed...
...like what they found out. Last week Carey Longmire, open-eyed correspondent of the Paris New York Herald, turned in a report of a real trip through Spain. Having no truck with the official and political life, Correspondent Longmire wandered through the towns noting the price of eggs, the looks of posters, the crowds at bullfights, jokes, songs and the length of women's bathing suits, came back with a common man's view of a postwar world...
Last January Midwestern farmers were hoarding corn, holding out for higher prices. Last week, the price was down to 40?, the lowest in six years, and no one wanted any of it. This year's crop is huge (estimated 2,550,000,000 bu.). Besides, there is an approximated carry-over of 550,000,000 bu. This, added to the new crop, comes to over 3,100,000,000 bu., 350,000,000 bu. over the five-year average of "normalcy...
...Just what effect the recently adopted code for broadcasters will have on Father Coughlin cannot be foretold. . . . I dislike censorship in any form, but even censorship might not be too high a price to pay if it will help insulate us against the anti-Semitic oratory of the radio priest out in Royal Oak, Mich...
...programs from Alpine have created such a stir that General Electric Co. (licensed by Armstrong) started to make receiving sets which could be switched from commercial reception to frequency modulation. Last week these were put on sale in Newark, and this week they will be launched in New York. Price: $75 to $225. Stromberg-Carlson is also preparing to put sets on sale. Besides Alpine, two other frequency-modulating broadcasting stations (at Paxton, Mass, and Hartford, Conn.) are underway and others (Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, Washington, Milwaukee) are scheduled to get going soon. And some admirers of the Armstrong system predict...