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Panama. A great sheaf of snow-white lilies was President and Sra. Harmodio Arias' gift to Mrs. Hull when the Santa reached Panama City. In the Zone, one of the most heavily fortified districts in the world, Secretary Hull chose to talk about disarmament: "We cannot go too far or do too much in carrying this gospel to the uttermost parts of our lands. Slaughter by the outlawed means of armed conflict would be nothing less than murder and assassination...
Crisp and businesslike is Baron Kumakichi Nakajima, onetime Tokyo stockbroker, now Minister of Commerce & Industry. Last week he ruffled through a sheaf of amazing figures hot from the Japanese Federation of Cotton Textile Manufacturers. They showed what a spunky little Empire can do in two short years to a big, bumbling Empire-the British...
...dictator to another Josef Stalin sent last week to Josef Pilsudski an extraordinary personal gift. It comprised a bulky sheaf of time-worn documents Every one of them damned the present Dictator of Poland as a radical, conspirator, firebrand, socialist, fake-madman and terrorist. This present Dictator Stalin had carefully gathered from the files of the Imperial Russian Secret Police When he received the documents on his farm near Vilna last week Dictator Pilsudski growled gruff delight, shut himself up in his study to devour item after item...
...Utah copper. Claim holders listened to his advice as to an oracle. His friends considered his record as an investor as spotless as his reputation as a scientist. Nevertheless they were surprised at the size and liquidity of his holdings when he died. He had some French gold, a sheaf of Bank of England notes, accounts in one British and nine U. S. banks. A bachelor, he divided most of his $10,000,000 hoard between the American Philosophical Society and the Geological Society of America. The latter body long pondered what to do with its income, was glad...
...assenting to the 30-hour week, other manufacturers were vigorously opposing it. Henry Ingraham Harriman appearing for the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, James Augustan Emery for the National Association of Manufacturers, protested that the bill would work vicious harm, upset industry, prevent recovery. The automobile business sent a sheaf of opposing telegrams, wires from Chevrolet, Chrysler, Hudson, Hupp. Not wholly isolated was Mr. Swope, however. Many opponents qualified their opposition, indicating that if the strict six-hour, five-day-and-no-more provision were made more flexible, they might feel differently. Henry Ford was reported in favor...