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...Prompt financial response met an appeal by James A. Rousmaniere '40, Secretary, the remaining sum necessary to enable the club to purchase two second-hand dinghies costing $150 apiece being subscribed. It is expected that the boats will arrive at the Union Boat Club this weekend or next...
...great deal of Léon Blum. Therefore 1,000,000 French War veterans through their national organization petitioned President Albert Lebrun to make exceptional use of the Presidential powers and himself head a "French Cabinet of Public Safety"-i.e. kick out the Blum Popular Front cabinet. In prompt retort the William Green of French Labor, portly Léon Jouhaux, announced in the name of 5,000,000 unionized workmen that if the Popular Front Cabinet falls "we will go the limit to set it up again-BY OUR OWN MEANS...
...idea of a refugee committee amounts to much more than a grandiose gesture, its reception last week was magnificent. In the U. S., it was unanimously praised by Jewish welfare groups, the Federal Council of Churches and the nation's press. Abroad it was indicated that prompt official acceptances would be forwarded from Great Britain, France, The Netherlands and Belgium. Meanwhile, before details of the plan had been worked out and before the State Department had explained precisely what the committee would be expected to accomplish, Franklin Roosevelt told a Warm Springs, Ga. press conference that he hoped...
...Japan last week received an itemized bill from U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew in Tokyo. Property losses were put at $1,945,670.01, indemnification for death and personal injuries at $268,337.35. On the total of $2,214,007.36, which includes no punitive damages, the State Department expected prompt payment...
...unselfish devotion to American politics and diplomatic wisdom during the War years; none have stressed the fact, which will be equal to any other when all are collected and analyzed, that he was a reformer. In 1912, twenty years after he began, as a rich and influential citizen, to prompt behind the political curtain of Texas, there was published anonymously a novel called "Philip Dru, Administrator." Later House admitted that it came from his pen, but even today that political novel, the philosophy of which was drawn from the liberal Mazzani and which advocated--among other things--a graduated income...