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Significantly the French Premier was curt as he caught the night train for Paris. With French elections looming May i, he left his big Flandin to attend to what was going to happen in London, spent a bad night on the Channel and was up at 6 a. m. to dictate the whole way to Paris...
...found lining up with the Insurgent Republicans on economic questions. As a Senator he represents a bookish type who carries no flaming banner of Liberalism pellmell into the midst of a political fight. His largest single legislative accomplishment was getting through a bill providing for a 9-ft. channel in the upper Mississippi with an appropriation...
Five o'clock struck. All round Britain the doors of His Majesty's Customs Houses rumbled shut last week. British Free Trade was at an end as the recently enacted tariff bill went into effect. All week long the Channel was black with ships, the "Dumping Armada." British papers called it, rushing to Britain with goods from all over the world. God seemed to be on the side of the tariff. Heavy gales kept hundreds of lumbering freighters at sea. When 5 o'clock sounded from Big Ben at least 50 ships of the "Dumping Armada" were...
Unhappily, Dr. Sirovich, in his remarks before the Patents Committee, had made several errors of fact. Of the 75 Manhattan playhouses available for the production of legitimate drama, 29, not ten, were operating last week. The Woollcott play to which he referred, The Channel Road, written in collaboration with George S. Kaufman, was presented in 1929 and promptly retired under the almost unanimous damnation of fellow critics...
...months alone the new Ministry of Defense will spend $600,000,000, according to budget estimates published last week. Secret, France's defense program is nevertheless known to consist of a series of fortresses, largely subterranean, strung like pearls along almost her entire land frontier from the English Channel to the Mediterranean. Subways connect large key forts with smaller posts so that men and munitions may be rushed from fort to fort beneath the poppies of a smiling countryside...