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...Continuance of the present modes of persecution must seriously affect the good-will with which the people of Britain desire to regard the German nation," warned the Archbishop of Canterbury, before popping out of the Church Assembly to christen the six-week-old son of the Duke of Kent...
...Concessions. The tariff concessions given by the U. S. to Canada affect 53 items. Chief are: one-third to one-half off the duty on cattle, a reduction limited however to 155,799 heavy beef cattle, 51,933 calves less than 175 lb. each, and 20,000 dairy cattle per year; a 20% to 40% cut for 750,000 bu. a year of seed potatoes; 43% off for 1,500,000 gal. a year of cream; half off on halibut; $2.50 instead of $5 per gallon on whiskey aged four years or more in the wood; half off on lumber...
...coal prices by the equivalent of what NRA called a Code Authority. In doing so he propounded a doctrine which differed not only from that of his predecessor but from that of the Supreme Court in the Schechter (NRA) case: Judge Hamilton: "The bituminous coal industry as now conducted affects interstate commerce and, this being true, the court is without power to substitute a different judgment for that of Congress." Supreme Court: "Where the effect of intrastate transactions upon interstate commerce is merely indirect, such transactions remain within the domain of state power." Judge Hamilton: "The mining of coal...
...Congress . . . has flagrantly exceeded its lawful power under the commerce clause of the Constitution. . . . The Act aims to regulate virtually everything that such holding companies do ... intrastate as well as interstate. . . . "The theory upon which the Act is predicated is that public utility holding companies and their subsidiaries are affected with a 'national public interest.' But under the Constitution there is no 'national public interest' which permits of Federal regulation, unless the person, corporation or thing affected with such interest is. in fact, involved directly-not in-directly-in some activity over which the Federal Government...
...Italian intervention in Ethiopia does not affect seriously our interests cried Sidky Pasha. "We received all kinds of assurances that Italy would not touch our ancient rights. ... We do not feel an; danger from Italy. ... We must realize with sad hearts that our country being treated in this affair as a colony populated with primitive peoples who have to bow without an understanding of everything imposed upon them! Ready enough to start bowing himself Sidky Pasha larded into his speech coy hints that Egypt must continue under Britain's thumb but should have her official "free and independent" status...