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...earls sat in decorously on each other's laps. Edward of Wales, the earnest Duke of York and Prince George peered over the edge of the Royal Gallery. A greenish mortuary light filtered down from the high ecclesiastical windows. It touched Chancellor Chamberlain speaking with one hand on the Budget Box. It raised pale gleams from the immaculate top hat and glittering monocle of his brother, Sir Austen Chamberlain, who nodded solemn agreement from a Tory back bench. That monocle was a symbol. It was exactly such an eyeglass that their late great father, the elegant, hawk-nosed Joseph Chamberlain...
...Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Corp, From 1920-24 Mr. Dewey was a vice president of Northern Trust Co., Chicago, then served three years as assistant Secretary of the Treasury. In Warsaw he advised Poland on its foreign borrowing policy, kept its national debt down to $15 per capita, initiated a budget balanced monthly I instead of yearly...
With its slanty eye cocked on China, all Japan trembled with patriotic fervor last week. General elections were coming, the budget was unbalanced, the yen was falling, Government bonds were off. But about such things few subjects of the Emperor cared when Japanese arms were carving out world headlines in Shanghai, Nanking, Harbin. Flags fluttered from every Tokyo home. Troops drilled in every barracks. Full of martial memories, reservists tramped back and forth to business, pretending their umbrellas were guns. Proud Japanese fathers lectured their sons on the honor of dying for Nippon...
Tammany's political strength derives in large measure from oversized municipal payrolls, fat public contracts, personal relief for the faithful. Slim, slick little Mayor James John Walker, whose salary is $40,000, refused to economize. In 1929 the municipal budget was $520,000,000; in 1931, $605,000,000. For this year Mayor Walker put through a budget of $631,000,000 while his critics screamed themselves hoarse about his extravagance. Fortnight after New Year's the city treasury found it had only about $13,000,000 in cash on hand and close...
...seats for 3,000. The new rink, where curling, figure skating and hockey will be played next month, was one of many improvements made at Lake Placid since the Olympic Winter Games, held at Chamonix in 1924, at St. Moritz in 1928, were awarded to the U. S. Budget for this winter's games was over $1,000,000 of which $200,000 came from Lake Placid, $500,000 from the State of New York. Improvements on the bob-sled run cost $225,000. Designer Stanislaus Zentzytski, imported from Berlin, built into the side of Van Hoevenberg Mountain a deep...