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Last week Prime Minister MacDonald tried to weasel out of aiding Cunard. "The trouble is not to get the Cunarder built," he declared, "but to get the com-pany to believe that when she is built she can be run with some chance of paying her way. There would be no difficulty in getting money for the building if there were any prospect of getting the interest repaid and the loans refunded...
This was indignantly denied by a Cunard official to reporters of London's Daily Express. "It is incorrect." snapped Cunard's spokesman, "to say that the com-pany do not believe that a ship of the size of the 534 could pay her way. The ships paying the best in the Atlantic service are the large ones. . . . The suspension of work was because of the inability to obtain loans in the City at reasonable rates of interest...
...Metropolitan (archbishop) of Thyatiera, the Com-mission recommended to both churches a set of resolutions to the following effect...
...veto, a bill to legalize parimutuel betting, Sports Gallagher & Dwyer last spring formulated plans for a track to compete with Hialeah. They bought a disused dog-track at Coral Gables, got Frank J. Bruen, onetime Hialeah general manager, to run it for them. When the State Racing Com-mission met last fortnight, it cut Hialeah's customary racing season of 45 days to 36, gave the new track a non-conflicting schedule of 37 days, starting on Dec. 26 before the Hialeah season and resuming after it from Feb. 22 to March 19. Indignant because the new track...
...beard the Federation Board's meeting next week and, instrument in hand, force a vote on the ukulele's status. To plead her case she will present affidavits from famed musicians. Conductor Walter Damrosch heard her play last week, said it was "like raindrops in sunshine." Com-poser-Critic Deems Taylor said that he did not see why "a good ukulele player, such as Miss Breen, shouldn't be admitted to the musicians' union. Triangle players, snare drummers and expert sand block rubbers carry union cards...