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...problems of India's Untouchables and village industries. Mr. Gandhi now concerned himself and the Congress concerned itself with deciding whether to: 1) support or struggle against the New Indian Constitution; 2) support or boycott the Coronation Durbar in India next winter of Their Majesties; 3) support or withhold support from His Majesty's Government in case they find themselves...
When Pittsburgh was invited to play in the Rose Bowl, Los Angeles sports writers suggested their readers might boycott the game on the ground that the Panthers would provide no opposition, scolded Washington for picking a pushover. If they read the publicity, the Panthers had sense enough to withhold comment until the ball was kicked off to them. The pushovers then began to push...
...were the four members of the Bi-Partisan Election Board, composed of two Democrats and two Republicans picked by Democratic Governor Guy Brasfield Park. Last week, with the Post-Dispatch still doling out its apparently inexhaustible store of election fraud evidence, Governor Park felt it would be unwise to withhold official action longer, called in Jefferson City correspondents, announced he had removed his St. Louis Election Board for the "betterment of the public service," appointed a new board...
...exonerating everyone except J. H. Thomas the verdict, although otherwise wholly a source of satisfaction, last week moved many British hearts to pity. It was recalled that Leaker Thomas had been an intimate friend of the late King George, and as the London Times said: "Let no one withhold a measure of sympathy from Thomas himself and the family concerned.... In the crisis of 1931 he [Thomas] was one of only two or three men who stood firm in the midst of political chaos and made possible the National Government which staved off disaster...
...sympathies gravitated toward his deposed predecessor, Mr. Peek, however, and a few months ago President Roosevelt bundled him off to Europe to inspect foreign farm conditions. It was after that trip that Mr. Davis made the curious suggestion that one good way to promote foreign farm markets was to withhold exports of U. S. automobiles from countries which did not buy U. S. wheat, cotton, pork, etc. Lately Mr. Davis has often been reported on the verge of resignation from the Department of Agriculture. That might have had political repercussion among farmers, who like Mr. Davis and would naturally conclude...