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...majority of Conservative Premiers, who the Liberals claim have stuffed the Senate with old-foggyism. They will ask the electorate for power to "end or mend" the Senate. Conservatives will maintain that Solons of the Senate's present calibre would not stoop to campaign for their seats, would abandon the Senate to featherbrains, if not honored as they deserve for life...
...would be decidedly embarrassing to such friends of Mr. Hammond as the Pittsburgh Coal Company, the Consolidation Coal Company, the Bethlehem Mines Corporation and the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway coal interests, all of which have torn up their agreements with the United Mine Workers of America with the same abandon that William the Absolute destroyed the treaty which protected the neutrality of Belgium. Mr. Hammond, by his vain mutterings, has brought the present controversy into the realm of political equations. By the same token he has mixed 'the devil's stew for the forthcoming Congress to sup." From...
French and Spanish peace commissioners sent to Melilla . were ordered to abandon their mission since it was evident that Abdel Krim would not make peace on any terms which they regarded as reasonable...
...deadlock. Last week even informal negotiations between the high contracting parties were dropped; John L. Lewis, leader of the miners, wrote to Samuel D. Warriner, leader of the operators, saying that he did not want to exchange any more opinions unless the operators were willing to abandon their position...
...With the Atlantic comfortably smooth, we are headed for the Sargasso Sea* and expect to resume our trawling and dredging there, which we had to abandon in March owing to high seas." Such was last week's, news of Explorer William Beebe, whose last wireless, reports (TIME, May 11) came from the neighborhood of Galapagos in the Pacific...