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So sure were the British of this that they invited no Burmese to last week's third and final Conference. Just as the delegates assembled, however, cables from Rangoon announced that the Burmese Anti-Secession Party leader, eminent Dr. B. A. Maw, had won the Burmese General Election and...
The contradictory cables from Allahabad and Delhi raised once more the issue of competence. Who is competent to speak for India? Mr. Ganhdi continued to squat in Yerovda Jail last week, "during His Majesty's pleasure." At the Conference in London sat no representative of Mr. Gandhi's...
Prices have slumped greatly since the summer of 1931 when bids on the Bridge were called for, and some specifications have been changed. New bids were solicited. Last week the contract for the spectacular job of fabricating and erecting the cable-work was awarded to John A. Roebling's Sons...
Far off in the prairies, over ragged mountains, through black tunnels, the silver gray wires hum from pole to pole, as they streak their messages across the country. Under great lakes of cold water, across rivers, and rolling on the bottom of black oceans, the dirty, slimy cables tremble with...
The old man and his son got off the train at Turin. It was afternoon and they spent the night there, then went on to Milan. There they went to the office of a travel agency. "I am Samuel Insull," he said. "You know who I am?" He was perfectly...