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...Imperial Businessman had instructed Al Smith's publicity director, Josef Israels II. to tell the world that His Majesty was willing to settle on terms only slightly more generous to Ethiopia than those offered by The Deal of Hoare & Laval. He was willing to yield a great chunk of his empire in exchange for peace and a corridor to the Red Sea. The resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare and the tribulations of Premier Laval last week caused the Imperial Businessman to propose a completely New Deal. Ethiopia's new "basis for discussion," with which...
...Because of the formidable nature of this operation, an effort is now being made to develop a modification of the splanchnic nerve resection," said Dr. Adson who explained that he removes only a section of the twelfth pair of ribs, cuts a few handy sympathetic nerves, excises a chunk from each adrenal gland...
...impressed with the future of technology was Asa Packer of Mauch Chunk, richest man in Pennsylvania, that in 1866 he founded Lehigh University. Spread over a hillside above smoky Bethlehem, Lehigh has always made a specialty of engineering. Founder Packer would have beamed last week upon the election as Lehigh's president of Clement Clarence Williams, 53, dean of the College of Engineering at University of Iowa, once an active civil engineer. Succeeding Dr. Charles Russ Richards, President-elect Williams will take office October...
...tall talk of such fat figures ringing in their ears, the Senate Finance Committeemen retired into their committeeroom with the House tax bill, started to remake it, supposedly in secret. Every few minutes, however, some loose-tongued Senator stuck out his head to whisper to the Press that another chunk had been taken out of the measure. First inheritance taxes went out bodily. Then a new schedule of estate taxes higher than those in force was ordered written. Next the stiff excess profits tax proposed by the House was pared down. Personal income tax exemptions were cut from...
Meanwhile the Athens newsorgan Anexartitos reported former King "Gorgeous" Georgios II so enraged at Premier Tsaldaris that he was conferring secretly with the leader of Greece's lately suppressed revolution, foxy old Eleutherios Venizelos, who has just lost a chunk of his fat wife's fat fortune in the crash of Paris' Travelers Bank. The onetime...