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...increase in living costs abroad; 3) the 65% reduction in heating, lighting and rental allowances to diplomats under the Economy Bill. The dollar's decline had been compensated for in foreign service salaries in gold standard countries by paying in gold, but last week, as a final blow, the gold content was officially sliced...
...delivered a telling blow to Herbert Hoover, whose followers in California have lately been working like beavers to root Senator Johnson out of public life...
Probably the boldest procedure which Dr. Matas devised is the Matas Operation. Under some conditions an artery will blow up like a toy balloon. Its walls grow paper thin. This is an aneurism which any rough usage or surgery is apt to burst. Dr. Matas conceived the plan of opening the blood filled sacs, stitching the walls together like a seamstress taking in a pleat, and leaving the artery with a normal sized bore...
...Efforts to promulgate banking regulations under the banking code brought a blow-up from General Johnson, when depositors howled against proposed service charges. Cried he: "If the banks want to commit suicide nobody is going to worry much about it ... but I am interested in protecting the public...
Smarting under Justice O'Byrne's blow to his prestige, President de Valera was hit again last week by the Bishop of his home constituency, the Right Reverend Michael Fogarty of Killaloe. In a speech to undergraduates of a Catholic college the Bishop blamed the President for inviting trade reprisals, cried: "You are the sons of farmers whose unhappy lot it has become to see their industry and sole source of livelihood practically killed by a heartlessness which is inconceivable." As if to nail home the Bishop's point Britain last week made the Free State farmers...