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...been violated by the Soviet Government in despatching funds to the support of the British "general strike" (TIME, May 10 et seq.). No mention was made of funds now passing from Moscow to London? though £30,000 was thus added to the coal strikers' war chest last week???because the "coal strike" had not yet been officially declared "subversive" (as was the "general strike" but still retained the character of a purely industrial dispute...
...Morgan loan has been repeatedly declared "untouched" by the French Government. Naturally its use last week???if it was used?was carefully concealed lest speculators gain an inkling of the extent to which the Government is prepared to embark upon salvage operations...
Since autumn, three Finance Ministers (Caillaux, Painlevé and Loucheur) and two Premiers (Painlevé twice) have fallen on this one tax issue, without being able to get as far as MM. Briand and Doumer got last week???without being able to get the Chamber to indorse any program whatever for recouping the finances of France. Therefore, M. Briand's triumph was great. The Senators, eager to help him, prepared to "amend" the crazy-quilt bill into something workable. It was considered certain that they will stretch the constitutional limits of their amending power to the uttermost. Presumably when the bill goes...
...very visible reflection of this feeling was to be found on ten consecutive pages of the Saturday Evening Post last week???an eleven page group advertisement for which $77,000 was paid by the Willys Overland Co. and eight companies furnishing standard accessories of that car. The display was said to be a record insertion, in price and size, for all time...
...championships were decided last week???one by the series of precise passes with which Alabama swept down a field in Birmingham to win its seventh game and the championship of the South by beating Georgia 27 to 0; and one by the sportsmanlike action of Northwestern in conceding to Michigan the "Big Ten" title for which the two had tied. And in Manhattan, under a sky of pewter, with a brass band playing for the march and countermarch of little figures in grey and little figures in blue, the Army beat the Navy 10 to 3 in the game that...