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...Hospital.) Physicians found that a bullet had grazed Mayor Cermak's liver and lodged at the back of his abdomen in his spine. His condition was critical. Mrs. Gill was on the brink of death as the result of a stomach wound. The other three were suffering only from flesh wounds...
...views presented here are to prevail, this country is nearing the brink of absolute wreckage. If it be admitted for a moment that private contracts may be abrogated by a law of Congress or if the creditors may have their property confiscated by taxation, that would simply abrogate contractual relations in this country and there would be no more of them...
...cost of conquering Manchuria, turning it into "Independent Manchukuo," and the constantly increasing cost of policing Japan's puppet state have brought the Empire to a fiscal brink. Next year's budget is to balance at the largest figure in the history of Japan-the fantastic sum of 2,239,000,000 yen ($1,119,500,000 at par, $470,019,000 at current exchange). So much money cannot be raised by taxation. It is to be raised by what will amount to forced internal loans with consequent inflation and further depreciation of the yen. Clearly the only...
...nine days in the grand ballroom of Chicago's Palmer House, 1.500 representatives of 21 standard railway unions and a committee of nine managers representing 210 Class 1 U. S. roads stubbornly locked horns over the matter of railroad wages. Time after time the conference was on the brink of rupture...
...explaining the custom of "plucking," but the Vagabond heard not. Somewhere in the vague hinterland beyond the anti-macasser and the cupped ear was a rocking chair. The distance, he remembers, was not great, nor for that matter was the "Half a league Onward," up on the thin green brink of his saucer, however, there teetered an incoherent mass which adicts style cake. It is all very hazy; there were a thousand eyes, and two red ears, a sharp grunt from the possessor of an abused bunion, and then the muffled howl of some lonely offstage Phantom. The Vagabond...