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...reconsider the confirmation of the three Power Commissioners when Congress reassembles next week.* Senators Borah, Norris, Brookhart, Dill and Wheeler, promising support to Senator Walsh, clamored to have the question reopened. A report spread that Chairman Smith and his two Commissioners, to avert a Senate explosion which might blow them out of their new jobs, were considering rehiring Messrs. Russell & King. Commissioner McNinch, not yet in office, wired his "surprise" from North Carolina that his colleagues had broken their pledge not to deal with personnel until after...
...Brailsford examined many Indian men and women bearing "wounds on teh feets or bruises on the stomach, made with the butt end of a rifle . . . one man with a terribly swollen arm, fractured or dislocated, hanging in a sling . . . a woman [with] a badly swollen face caused by a blow...
...chair at the University of Jassy, enter politics and split the Liberal (Bratianu) Party by siding with His Majesty against Uncle Vintila. On the Rumanian scene today there remains secure (if not supreme) the master intrigant His Grey Eminence General Alexandre Averescu. Seemingly no freak of fortune, no blow of fate can dislodge him from his niche of power. He used to alternate as Prime Minister with the Bratianus, he has played courtly tit-tat-to with Queen Marie, he gives fatherly advice to George Bratianu, and by King Carol he was recently made a Marshal of Rumania. To widowed...
Many a puzzled British housewife waited anxiously last week for the world to blow to pieces. As these matrons sat in their comfortable homes, a quiet voice from the radio had told them that the universe was nothing but a bursting soap bubble. "It is easy to blow a soap bubble," said the voice, "but far less easy to keep it in existence more than a minute or two-after that it is apt to disappear. If hope I shall not startle you too much if I say . . . that the universe is like that . . . expanding-I might almost say exploding...
...whether the latter merely foresaw the business trend.* Similarly, an endless debate goes on concerning the problem of whether Over-Production was a cause of the Depression or has been merely accentuated by it. To industries already faced with Over-Production. the Depression has been an almost fatal blow. Oil consumption was nearing stability on a basis that allowed for an annual increase of 10%. The 1930 increase will be abnormal and the difference upsets all plans for stability. Too much competition seems to have been at the root of many cases of overproduction. Small competitors cannot afford to restrict...