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...German exporters. Last week, the potent Association of British Chambers of Commerce urged that the exchange clearing bill, passed in 1934 but never implemented, be enforced. But as such a move would blight Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's present hopes of an Anglo-German appeasement, it was deemed stillborn...
...period, split the money between them, received checks for $100,000 each. Out of this one mother must return to the Toronto Relief Administration $5,696 another $2,314, loaned during the tough-going days. With two mothers the judges had difficulty. One claimant had given birth to three stillborn children. Five of another woman's children were not products of wedlock. To these two maternal runners-up went $12,500 each as consolation prizes to insure against further litigation. Still left in the Millar till were assets worth about $75,000, which will be divided later among...
...ophthalmologists enucleated the old man's left eye, stripped it of part of its transparent cornea which they immediately substituted for the young man's opaque cornea. So commonplace has this eye operation become (corneal grafts may be taken from the eyes of stillborn babies or persons who have just died) that Charity Hospital surgeons assured Frank Chabina that within two weeks he would probably see as well as ever. Commented the grateful old donor: ''It looks a lot different to an old man like me than to a young fellow with all his life ahead...
Whither last week's spectacular doings might lead was more than any seasoned labor observer dared hazard. Realists in both camps knew that the original issue -craft v. industrial unionism-was nearly dead, that Bill Green's new issue of de mocracy v. autocracy was stillborn. The big problem remaining was how to reconcile the personal power and ambitions of a handful of potent personalities. But one thing was certain: the will for peace is stronger today in both A. F. of L. and C.I.O. than at any time in the past two years...
...Stillborn," "reactionary," "suspended in the air," "counter-revolutionary," were some of the epithets flung last week by the Anarcho-Syndicalists. most extreme of Spain's Leftist groups, at the newly-installed radical Government of Socialist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin (TIME, May 24). Stocky, 48-year-old Dr. Negrin- born in the Canary Islands, educated in Germany, onetime professor of biology, Finance Minister in the Largo Caballero Cabinet-was not disturbed by these howls. The crisis forced on his predecessor's Government by a revolt of Anarcho-Syndicalists in Barcelona had been smoothly overcome, and Dr. Negrin...