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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover wants to keep Reparations and War Debts out of the national campaign, hence opposes their discussion at any economic conference before Nov. 8. Rarely in step with the White House, Senator William Edgar Borah went to Minneapolis last week and there delivered before the summer convocation of the University of Minnesota a powerful address for the inclusion of Reparations, Debts and armaments as major economic factors in the London parley. Putting aside his famed isolationist views, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called on the U. S. to take a world lead in the settlement...
Pleased Treasury officials rubbed their hands over long tables of figures last week, then called in the Press for an announcement. The first, most important step was over in the Government's spectacular campaign to convert Britain's 5% War Loan Bonds (largest single block of the national debt) to new 3½% bonds Out of a total of ?2,086,000,000 outstanding, ?1,500,000,000, or something over 70%, has been voluntarily converted. Over 75% of the individual bondholders, 2,036,700 out of 2,600,000, have come forward with applications. Only...
...emotionally improbable, but genuinely affecting. Director John M. Stahl has elaborated the period detail of pre-War Cincinnati and Manhattan nearly as painstakingly as did Author Hurst. Examples: The high, ugly bandstand and the uniforms of the band playing Sousa's marches-on Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati; the three-step stoop before the notion store where the family chairs are drawn on summer evenings; the restfulness of the street noises?plodding hooves on cobbles, a teamster's gi-yap; pre-War Broad & Wall Streets, before the grey House of Morgan filled the corner...
...Winner of third place on the hop, step & jump team at the final U. S. trials in Palo Alto last fortnight was Levi Casey of the Los Angeles A. C. Last week the American Olympic Committee barred Hopper Casey from the U. S. team for "reasons best known to the Olympic Committee and the athlete himself." In his place they chose Sol ("Happy") Furth, hop, step & jumper of the Millrose A. C. On his way home to Gardiner, Maine, happy Hopper Furth did not learn of his selection till he arrived. He wired the Olympic Committee for funds, promptly started...
...tale is of Kaoru and Niou, two princes of noble blood, and their affairs with Agemaki and Kozeri, Prince Hachi's lovely daughters. Kaoru is an exceptional youth with such a natural fragrance that even at a distance people can smell his "hundred-step scent." Niou, who carries no such natural musk, tries to emulate his friend by becoming an expert mixer of perfumes. But Niou's personal life, dedicated to endless amours, is not so savory. Kaoru. with heavenly leanings, leaves women and the court alone...