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Four days after the Hoover plan had gone forth, Secretary of State Stimson marched happily into the President's office to announce that Britain and Italy had unconditionally accepted his terms. Scot Ramsay MacDonald had made a great oration in Parliament [cheers] which had been echoed loudly by other orations from His Majesty's Opposition [cheers]. More notably, His Majesty's Britannic Government had spread the Hoover generosity around the globe by offering to His Majesty's Indian and the Dominion Governments the same concessions which His Majesty's Britannic Government received [cheers]. Lazy, bankrupt...
...President Hoover's pressure-putter. "I am charged with the diplomatic side of the question." said he. "Negotiations may be necessary with certain powers." On July 17 Pressure-Putter MacDonald will go to Berlin, will return the pressure-putting call of German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning on Scot MacDonald at "Chequer." (TIME, June 15). Thus world public opinion will be mobilized against expected French opposition...
...runs had started. But not all the outlying banks were in a condition to warrant saving. In one crack the twelve banks of the John Bain chain went down, affecting laborers and commuting clerks in such Southside districts as Stony Island, Auburn Park, Englewood and Chicago Lawn. Although onetime Scot and onetime Plumber Bain said depositors would receive 100%, the alarm spread. By the end of the week 29 banks had closed, Evanston, Des Plaines, Washington Park and Beverly Hills had been added, along with other communities, to U. S. towns where bank failures have caused suffering. Biggest of these...
...British Open five years ago and tied for sixth place. This year, with Jones, who has won three times, and Hagen, who has won four times, out of the Open, it seemed that he, or one of several British players would have a chance. MacDonald Smith, another Americanized Scot, who finished second to Jones twice last year, won the qualifying rounds. In the championship play he slipped back and Jurado, Armour, Joe Kirkwood, stocky little Gene Sarazen, Johnny Farrell who carried a rabbit's foot in his pocket, and two British professionals, Cotton and Twine, were near the lead...
...General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South) at Montreat, N. C., last week made no such ado about Birth Control and the Council. Forthright conservatives who know their own minds, they simply denounced Birth Control, refused to allot their annual scot of $750 to the Federal Council, and voted complete severance from that interdenominational organization, although expressing for it unanimous "fraternal love...