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...Walter Richard Nugent, Irish Senator and Chairman of the Great Southern Railways of Ireland, announced at a stockholders meeting last week that unless President de Valera called off his tariff war with Britain, the fall in freight loadings would force the Great Southern to abandon all service and return its territory to the pony and the jaunting car. He was particularly bitter against the $1 a ton tax on British coal. The fire-boxes of his locomotives are adjusted for Brit ish coal only...
...clear that private industry is unable to take up the slack. Thus far we have been smug, complacent, waiting for someone else. But the situation can't be met that way. . . . The primary purpose behind this bill is to help States and municipalities which are being forced to abandon projects because they cannot sell securities." The relief legislation had hardly gone to conference before President Hoover released a public blast against some of its provisions. His statement was accepted as a veto warning. The President was "glad" to see the "principle of generous relief to unemployment adopted...
Appendicitis. Dr. Frank Kells Boland of Atlanta re-emphasized the fact that purgatives and delayed operations are the outstanding causes of death from appendicitis. More men have the disease than women. More men die from it than women. Negroes show comparatively few cases of appendicitis until they abandon simple foods and eat more meat, sugar and "things that have been polished, pickled, frozen, thawed and sterilized." Some whites have learned not to take a physic for every stomachache, observed Dr. Boland. But not many Negroes. Favorite purgatives of Negroes are castor oil and epsoni salts...
...help Comrade Pourmal make giant gas bags with the abandon of a lusty infant blowing bubbles, Italy's famed General Umberto Nobile will shortly arrive in Moscow, will become the technical brains behind Russia's balloon blowing...
...neither the U. S. nor Great Britain has a sales tax on manufactures, but Canada has and Chancellor Chamberlain has long been fixing his dark eye upon Canada. In urging Britain to abandon Free Trade he recalled on every possible occasion that Canada had adopted tariffs. He cried from many a hustings, "Why should we not take a leaf out of the Canadian book...