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...thickest, clad in silver. It was a work of the eighteenth century. It hung happily in the old State House till 1793, when it was moved to the House of Representatives in the Bulfinch State House. In 1895, when the House emigrated to a new chamber, four messengers bore it, enfolded in the American flag, to its new home above the Speaker's chair...
Boxer Balance. The same ship that carried discountenanced Warlord Chang Hsueh-liang and his 17 "secretaries" from Shanghai last week also bore Benito Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister to China, going home for a vacation. Earlier in the week he had put the finishing touches to a deal started some months ago when Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law H. H. Kung visited Rome. Still owing the Italian Government is a balance of $2,000,000 in gold from the Boxer indemnity squeezed from the old Empress Dowager...
...track star, won a remarkable race in the mile run, finishing in 4 minutes, 24 4-5 seconds. Bullwinkle started at scratch and pulled up to second place at the three-quarter mark, trailing Foote, who had received a 25-yard handicap, by 10 yards. As they bore down on the finish line, Bullwinkle staged a final spurt, and finished a bare two feet ahead of Foote...
...Italy would have in addition respectively 200,000 and 50,000 "Colonial troops." Russia, as the world's largest country, would have under the British Plan 500,000 troops, representing a cut of 62,000 below present Red Army strength. ¶To limit mobile land guns to a bore of 105 millimetres (4 inches) "for the future"-existing guns up to 155 millimetres (6 inches) to be retained, larger guns scrapped...
...national emergency in banking." So hastily had the bill been drawn up that no printed copies of it were yet available for members. Their only knowledge of what they were being asked to approve came from a clerk's sing-song reading of the lone text which still bore last-minute corrections scribbled in pencil. Chairman Steagall of the yet unorganized Banking & Currency Committee arose to explain to his bewildered colleagues how H. R. 1491 gave dictatorial banking power to the President, authorized impounding of all gold, and provided for a new currency issue. Members were told that only...