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...letter clearly foreshadowed a Hoover veto. But upon Congress it acted as no deterrent. Speaker Longworth pronounced the Bacharach bill "sane, sensible and conservative" and "one guess as good as another" on its cost. Secretary Mellon was loudly flayed for painting too gloomy a picture, was reminded that his dire prediction about the effects of the original Bonus act in 1924 had never materialized. The Ways & Means Committee in its report on H. R. 17054 argued that "there is no way to determine accurately just what the cost 'will be." Against Secretary Mellon's "potential liability...
...antagonists of the House Plan greeted the announcement of the change with a number of dire pictorial representations of the future characteristics of Harvard, the individual houses, and the individual students. Some said that the plan was a gross pampering of romantic democracy. Others predicted houses separated by social rank and a tendency toward snobbishness, or perhaps a superficial imitation of Oxford and Cambridge with a super-imposed paternalism...
...financial program which was interrupted by my wife's death a year ago. I still have two young daughters to provide for. World War veterans in Detroit and Michigan believe that the immediate payment of the Adjusted Service Certificates is warranted. Many veterans and their families are in dire need and the cash they would receive from the government would certainly go into immediate circulation. This should help considerably in alleviating distress during this period of depression and, in the opinion of many, hasten the return of prosperity...
Likewise in Amsterdam were representatives of Visp (Vereenigde Javasuiker Producenten) the Dutch sugar trust which controls 90% of Java's sugar industry. Intrigue and plotting marked the conferences. From the Cuban Nationalist party came dire messages warning the Dutch that soon a revolution will overthrow the Cuban Government, repudiate all of last week's deals. Busily hurrying around was Ivy Ledbetter Lee, famed Wall Street publicist. Mr. Chadbourne fought off bronchitis to attend the meetings. Java at first was recalcitrant. Production would be restricted next year, said the Visp men, but the future depended on consumption...
...chased from cover by mounted police. Fascists came early, sat in squads upon all Tiergarten benches near the Reichstag, bawled "Hail Hitler!" and "Wake up Germany!" hour after hour, growing more and more hoarse. To keep order nearly all Berlin's police were concentrated around the Reichstag - with dire result...