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...were issued. But leading correspondents convinced themselves with significant unanimity that the developments of last week were preparatory, preliminary. The world's foremost fiscal tycoons were understood to have debated principally questions of the organization and procedure to be followed by the new International Financial Commission, which will reopen the Reparations Question. A leading point at issue between the tycoons was ascertained to be whether the experts attached to the Commission shall be private financiers or governmental treasury experts. Agent Gilbert was understood to have urged the former, and Prime Minister Poincaré the latter. No decision was taken...
...supposed, would end the silly business; but counsel for Mae West secured an injunction which allowed the performance to be given twice more before it was attacked again. The second arrests were more complete; even Author Mae West was indicted for disorderly conduct and the play did not reopen...
...scene of shooting, clubbing, screaming, money-grabbing, hacking with axes, punitive bonfires. Huey P. Long, youthful, tempestuous, theatrical, newly-installed Governor of Louisiana, had been busying himself with whirlwind reforms in various departments of the State, when he heard that two St. Bernard gambling houses had dared to reopen despite his warning. He issued and personally taxied with an order to the Adjutant General to call out a raiding party of the National Guard. The offending establishments, facing each other in the same street, were the Jai-Alai* Fronton and the Arabi Clubs. The guardsmen approached. A lookout fired...
...interests in West Virginia, the same charge that had previously been laid upon Mr. Mellon's company and other Pittsburgh operators, namely, violation of a wage agreement, in spirit if not in letter. The method used, he said, had been to shut down the mines for a time, then reopen them and offer work to non-union men at wages below the agreed union scale. These moves by the Schwab and Rockefeller companies, Bittner declared, were what had driven the Pittsburgh operators to adopt like measures, to meet the price competition...
...When Maya (TIME, Mar. 5) was offered to playgoers, some one of them apparently found, in its glum survey of a poetized prostitute, the touch of pitch. Last week the wardens of the peace, in the dreary discharge of their duties, promised to arrest any one who attempted to reopen the play after it had been removed from the stage. It was removed...