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...formed about a year ago, made a shrewd bid for Senatorial patriotism and prestige. Thus it was that Senators Nye & Wheeler popped up in Havana last week at the behest of unhappy holders of $40,000,000 of Public Works bonds issued in the U. S. in the twilight of the Machado dictatorship. After Machado fled, the Grau San Martin Government repudiated the loan as illegally contracted, and the Cuban Supreme Court is now pondering charges that the Machado Administration and Chase National Bank, which underwrote the issue, had "usurped authority and entered into bribery." Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase...
...snarl, the President decided to compromise. He offered to up the cotton loans from 90 to 100, make subsidy payments quicker and easier (see p. 131. The jaded legislators clutched at this as the way to get home, passed a hard & fast resolution to adjourn at midnight. But as twilight set in the President learned that an unpleasant fly was buzzing in his adjournment cup- Huey Long. The Senator from Louisiana was roaring that the poor farmers had been betrayed, said he would keep roaring until midnight, killing the $93,000,000 deficiency bill for Social Security, which had been...
...game is a twilight affair scheduled for 6 o'clock. A return encounter will be held at Holy Cross on Saturday...
...neat New Englandish lunch, Mr. Ford took his richest guest, Irénée du Pont (middle brother), away for a private conference. Pierre du Pont regaled his guests, practically every last man of whom would have liked a job with the Du Ponts, with a splendid twilight dinner in the ballroom of his gorgeous greenhouse. An organ recital soothed the diners, and colored lights playing on the estate's fountains added more blandishments. But when it came to examining Du Pont manufacturing processes, the visiting chemical engineers saw as little as Du Pont chemical engineers permitted them...
Five o'clock is neither afternoon nor evening. The game cannot be termed an afternoon game nor a twilight contest. The hour chosen, since the game lasts until 7 o'clock or after, completely occupies the dinner hour in the Houses...