Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Left Unionist Bloc, was last week the first anti-ratifica-tionist to cross a potent sword with M. Briand as the Foreign Minister assumed the Government's defense. With fire and slash M. Franklin-Bouillion sought to destroy by an emotional onslaught the Government's chief logical reason why France must ratify her debt agreement not later than Aug. 1 next. On that date, as M. Poin-caré had incessantly reminded the Chamber, there would fall due the debt of $400,000,000 owed by France for War stocks purchased from the U. S. after the Armistice...
...wheat. Here Nature had already started helping the Hoover administration. Last week the Department of Agriculture announced crop estimates. Forecast was a wheat harvest of 834,000,000 bushels (1928: 902,000,000 bu.; 1927: 878,000,000 bu.). Great had been the crop shrinkage since the spring estimates. Reason: Hot winds, drought, severe insect damage. Bad weather conditions in Canada and improved world demand brightened the outlook. The Chicago wheat pit reflected these conditions. Prices, on the rise for the last month, went higher. July deliveries touched $1.29 per bushel, a 35 cent advance since the disastrous drop...
...Salle, Ill., one Thomas Tominillo was arrested for possessing a quart of moonshine. He was released. Reason: It was used for alcoholic rubs for his baby, recovering from pneumonia...
Last week Arthur E. Wilson, general employment manager, left Ford Motor Co. In eleven years he hired more than 300,000 Ford workers. No reason was announced for the Wilson withdrawal, though readers of an interview given out by Mr. Wilson after his departure noticed a discrepancy between the Ford and the Wilson ideas of employe ages. Men from 35 to 60 are the best workers, said Mr. Ford. Men from 30 to 50 are best men," said Mr. Wilson. "After 50," said he, "most men cannot stand the pace...
Spanish Flyers. Queen Victoria of Spain last week gave a formal luncheon to Commander Ramon Franco, Julio Ruiz de Alda, Eduardo Gonzales Gallarza. Spanish trans-atlantic aspirants, and their English rescuers (TIME, July 1, 8). A stayaway: Mechanic Sergeant Pedro Madariaga. Reason: Spanish court rules permit only members of the nobility or persons of high official rank to attend formal royal functions...