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...King's most excellent majesty and most gracious sovereign, we Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects in the Legislative Council and Assembly of Newfoundland, humbly approach Your Majesty praying that whereas in the present emergency Your Majesty's island of Newfoundland is unable from its own resources to defray the interest charge son the public debt and whereas the Royal Commission appointed by Your Majesty's warrant bearing the date of the seventeenth day of February 1933 to examine into the future of Newfoundland, has recommended that for the time being and until such...
...banks.'' ALFRED A. BUERGER Buffalo, N. Y. No law does the R. F. C. evade in purchasing capital notes, but the New Deal, expressing itself in laws of the U. S. and New York State, specifically gives banks a way to get around the constitution of the sovereign State of New York. Capital notes differ in legal theory from preferred stock but are issued, just like preferred stock, to get additional capital without subjecting the owner thereof to double liability. Said the advertisement in which the Manufacturers Trust announced its intention of selling capital notes: "Under the Constitution...
Professor Ford, who has been chairman of the Department of Romance Languages since 1911, was decorated by the Rumanian sovereign because of his interest and activity in diffusing knowledge of the language and literature of that country. He is already a Knight of the Legion of Honor of France and an Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy...
...Government which accepts the usual international conventions.* President Roosevelt's overture to Moscow last week was regarded in Europe as a triumph for Russia: recognition at last. For President Roosevelt it was two or three triumphs: 1) Never before had the Soviets agreed to discuss differences with a sovereign power before their own sovereignty was recognized. 2 ) Upon excited Europe and the Far East (though Japan loudly professed to see in it nothing admonitory) the drawing together of Russia and the U. S. must have a quieting effect. 3) The quieting effect upon U. S.-domestic excitements was instant...
...Bavaradej. He has captured the Royal Airdrome and is marching on Bangkok." "What? Prince Bavaradej!" cried King Prajadhipok. "Inform the populace at once of my deep regret that a member of the Royal Family should be leading a revolt against the Government." Not the cynical wisecrack of a dissolute sovereign, this pronouncement reflected King Prajadhipok's knowledge that his people regard him as their deliverer from the rest of the Royal Family, a horde of princes entrenched in hundreds of offices, whose constant meddling jeopardized the business of the State. The princes were swept out of their sinecures...