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...splitting roar of a low-flying airplane carrying U. S. mail. This roar came twice daily and began to interfere with the profits of the proprietor of the Cackle Corner Poultry Farm. So he wrote a protest last week to U. S. Postmaster General Harry S. New. Prompt to please, Mr. New asked the National Air Transport Co. (under contract to carry U. S. mail) to have its planes fly higher over Cackle Corner...
...such liabilities are outstanding, and the funds which they represent have produced conditions bordering on "boom prosperity" in some areas. Agent Gilbert sternly warned that under Article 248 of the Treaty of Versailles the repayment of such loans is made secondary to and contingent upon the prompt payment of reparations. He concluded: "The States and communes have played a major part in the gen eral tendency toward spending in excess of resources which has recently characterized public finance in Germany...
...Prompt Payments. The report declares that all sums owed by Germany under the Dawes Plan in the third reparations year have been promptly paid as follows to creditor nations: Marks Dollars (approximate) France 766,998,000 174,000,000 British Empire 306,996,000 75,800,000 Italy 107,458,000 25,880,000 Belgium 97,244,000 23,280,000 Jugoslavia 54,277,000 12,960,000 Rumania 12,500,000 2,900,000 Japan 13,000,000 3,120,000 Portugal 8,000,000 1,920,000 Greece 4,000,000 960,000 Poland...
...Padua three Jugoslav students "asked for it" by loudly and arrogantly singing a Jugoslav anthem, to which, it was alleged, they somewhat foolishly added insults to Italy, Fascism, Mussolini, always a dangerous procedure in Italy these days. Only the prompt intervention of the police saved these foolhardy youths from a fate that would not have stopped short of cudgelings and castor...
...this as well as other movements for the more general dissemination of knowledge, Harvard has been prompt to make itself available. Lacking whatever exotic qualities make a great college picture, the University may give a more important account of itself when the big scenes are shot in the buildings on Oxford Street...