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...Churchill is beaten! Throughout he has threatened Mr. Snowden that the Opposition would force him to abandon certain clauses, but those clauses are still there! The Chancellor has got the money he wanted and in the way he proposed to raise it. He has erected the barriers against tax evasion which he intended to erect, and for the first time in five years the finances of the country have been put in a sound, intelligible position...
With growing crime of all kinds . . . I cannot abandon the question for one moment or allow the work of this Commission to cease...
...estate of Peddler Comincio should revert to the State of New York as he died therein intestate and without relatives. "The contention that he may have been a subject of the King of Italy and not of New York," said the Court, "must be overruled. . . . His intent to abandon his domicile of origin and to establish and maintain a domicile in this country is clearly established...
Insurmountable obstacles, a furious avalanche and one death last month caused Gunther O.Dyhrenfurth's mountain climbing party to abandon hope of ever reaching the top of Kanchenjunga, 28,150-ft. Himalayan peak (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Disliking to return home with a blank page to show for a season's work, this most elaborate climbing party that ever set forth moved twelve miles north, started up Jonsong, 24,340-ft. brother of Kanchenjunga...
...little while ago the press proclaimed Professor Meikle john's college a failure and insinuated that the University of Wisconsin authorities had determined to abandon the test school. Recent reports from Madison including Professor Meikle john's own statement on the work of the school since its establishment in 1927, however, brand the rumors of failure as baseless. Far from not being a success, the college which makes a point of studying civilizations rather than the usual curriculum will continue its work. Professor Meikle john is particularly pleased with the solution of the first year study and is hopeful...