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Aside from the stubborn Dutchmen, the highest hurdle in restriction's path was native production. The nut-brown native taps when he pleases, and tales of tall plans are just so much English or Dutch to him. The conference mounted this hurdle by restricting not actual production but exports. The 1934 limit is set at 1,019,000 tons but under the guidance of an international committee the limit will rise about 25% by 1938. First year quotas (in tons): Malaya-504,000; Dutch East Indies-352,000; Ceylon-77,000; Sarawak-24,000; Siam-15,000; North Borneo...
Leverett managed a 4-3 win over a stubborn Eliot tennis team in the first of the inter-House court matches scheduled for this season. Play was erratic and rough on both sides due to a strong wind which whipped across the nets. With the wind behind it, the ball sped across the net for easy aces, while many attempts against it resulted in weak lobs...
...passengers must hire taxis and drive three miles to catch an L. & N. train for east or west. To assuage their grief, awakened citizens of Danville induced the Cincinnati Southern Railway to survey its municipally owned "Queen and Crescent'' route via Danville, Ky., but notwithstanding this the stubborn old L. & N. refuses to make connection at the crossing and I've seen the latter's passenger trains pull out leaving Q. & C. passengers frantically trying to board the L. & N. Truly a dead hand governs the situation at Junction City, in the very geographical centre...
Completely outclassed in the second half by a fast passing and extremely accurate shooting Green quintet, the Harvard five lost its second game of the year with Dartmouth Saturday evening, 46 to 28. The Crimson five displayed stubborn resistance in the first period and appeared to have an even chance to win. But shots with almost monotonous constancy in the last 16 minutes of the game and scoring 15 points apiece, the Hanoverians had little trouble in outscoring the Crimson men. Joe Ferriter and Bill Henderson led Harvard's scoring with eight and six markers respectively...
Senator Black was delighted that Mr. Brown had at last been smoked out. but during the opening session he could get little out of Witness Brown except the stubborn declaration that "there was nothing clandestine or secret" about the operators' conferences. Mr. Brown freely admitted his conviction that the Watres Act should have been framed to eliminate competitive bidding. Said he: "We don't put mail on railroads by competitive bidding." But Senator Black sparred vainly for an admission that Postmaster General Brown had let his convictions lead him into violation of the act as passed...