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Farmers. Real occasion for the special Diet session at which the momentous Uchida speech was made, was to draft a relief program for Japanese farmers who cannot sell their produce, who must pay twice the taxes of city merchants and whose suicide rate has doubled since 1931. At present Japanese prices, a Japanese housewife can buy 41 Ib. of ripe, juicy tomatoes for 10?...
Died. Dr. Johann Schober, 57. twice Chancellor of Austria (1921-22, 1929-30); of heart disease; in Gutenbrunn, Austria. Beginning as a clerk in the police department Dr. Schober rose to the high office of head of the Austrian Federal police which position he retained until his death. For some years during the reign of Emperor Franz Josef he safe-guarded the security of visiting monarchs, met Edward VII of Great Britain from whom he learned English. Regarded as conservative, Schober was trusted and liked by the anti-Marxists, the nervous bourgeoisie and the Jews, especially during the years immediately...
...head and closecropped grey hair, last week spun his partner away, came walking toward her, flattened palms forward in the gesture of pushing as his shoulders twitched in the dance called the Lindy Hop. It was Architect Fuller, fifth generation in a line of Harvard men, onetime class drunkard, twice expelled from Harvard, greatnephew of Emerson's friend Margaret Fuller, Wartime U. S. Navy lieutenant, engineer, a prophet of civilization...
...recognition of steelmen who formerly were hesitant to let a scrap dealer through the front door. The real justification of the complex system of scrap-gathering, Director Schwartz thinks, is the conservation of ore reserves. Not only is scrap steel's biggest raw material, but it takes twice as much ore as scrap to make a ton of steel. Every important country except Canada and the U. S. regard scrap as a basic resource, forbid its exportation. Under the Versailles Treaty Germany was required to supply Poland with 300,000 tons yearly. The U. S. sells to all comers...
...North Long Island) district. He had the support of Democratic bosses against his friend, tall, handsome Robert Low Bacon, incumbent. Congressman Bacon, 48, onetime Harvard athlete son of rich, famed Robert Bacon, was once designated by Anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka as "the wholesome, effective type of future American." Candidate Whitney, twice married, is a grandson of William Collins Whitney, Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland, great-grandson of Ohio's Senator Henry B. Payne...