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Even so the committee on privilege assembled with snowy-crested Ramsay MacDonald as its chairman. In the House of Lords paunchy Lord Derby begged his peers' permission to testify before it. Should the charge be substantiated, the mildest punishment that the House can inflict will be to summon both Sir Samuel and Lord Derby to the Bar of the House, there to receive a good round scolding from the Speaker...
...effort" to make an agreement with his employees or to maintain it once he had agreed? To determine the motive, the board is to have power to compel the submission of all books, papers, data, and figures and to subpoena anybody in the United States in any jurisdiction and summon them to Washington by telegraph or letter and compel attendance...
...less than ten days to install for airmail service, faded out. Completely lost, Lieut. Hollstein ran into a soupy fog, made a crash landing on an ice-clad hill outside Uniontown, Pa. His head and face badly gashed, he managed to scramble out of the wrecked ship and summon aid to rescue his mail...
...Lobbyist William P. MacCracken Jr. (TIME, Feb. 12). But Sergeant Jurney had to report that from Mr. MacCracken, he had nothing more than a letter. Senate faces grew grim as they listened to Mr. MacCracken's letter declaring his "greatest respect" for the Senate, denying its right to summon him to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt. While the clerk's voice droned on, Senator Black scribbled rapidly, drafting a resolution ordering Sergeant Jurney to arrest and forthwith bring Mr. MacCracken before the bar of the Senate. With no delay the resolution was passed...
Fukien was the last straw of revolt last week, the straw that broke Generalissimo Chiang's resolve to lead the anti-Communist drive in Kiangsi, the straw that caused him to summon his Council of Generals. Last month the Province of Fukien near Canton was announced to have "seceded" (TIME, Nov. 27). Last week Fukien's bold rebels dared to claim that they, not Nanking, represent the true Government of all China. Hurling defiance at Generalissimo Chiang they announced that their army will be led by General Tsai Ting-kai, famed commander of the 19th Route Army...