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...percent under this company's rates. Even the phraseology of this company's rate schedule was duplicated on the published rate schedule of the Cordele authorities. In addition to cutting this company's rates, political, social and economic pressure was brought to bear upon pur customers in Cordele. In reducing its rates in Cordele, this company moved to protect its investment and business in Cordele from unfair competition and not from "public competition...
Explanations. Alarmed at the sudden outcry, Army & Navy officials hastened to explain that they were compelled to buy foreign food products for their outposts because U. S. law requires them to pur- chase from the lowest competitive bidders...
...treaty was Maine's Senator Frederick Hale, chairman of the Naval Affairs Com mittee. A Big-Navy man, Senator Hale called his committee together to make an independent inquiry into its effects upon the Navy. The Hale hearings have no official standing, are for the patent pur pose of drumming up treaty opposition, if any, by staging a publicity sideshow. As Witness No. 1, Senator Hale summoned Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, a London delegate, to explain and elucidate. Later would be called Admirals William Veazie Pratt and Hilary P. Jones, naval advisors...
...received with curious apathy. Evidently carnivorous Church of Englanders still view the menaces of vegetarian Hindus with the customary contempt. The Daily Herald, party organ of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, recalled that during 1929 the Indian Nationalists demanded "dominion status," and complacently alluded to the 1930 demand for Pur an Swaraj (Complete Independence) as "an academic change involving no immediate consequences." In Manhattan, Chairman Sailendranath Ghose of the Indian Nationalist Association of America talked boldly of arming a million Indians for revolution but had no theory as to how a million rifles could be smuggled into India past alert...
...AIDA, PUR TI RIVEGGO and LATRA FORESTI VERGINI (Victor, $2.50)-For those limited to a single record, this version of the Nile duet has the advantage of better singing by Famed Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg and Famed Tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi...