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Runciman Paradox- In London last week came this supreme paradox: Tycoon Walter Runciman, the great Liberal shipping man (Royal Mail and associated companies) whose family stands rooted in the business and politics of Free Trade, was obliged personally to draft and put into effect measures making nearly all manufactured articles liable to a British tariff up to 100% ad valorem. Thus historically he hauled down the standard of Free Trade...
...French, Italian, Russian and Turkish railways, built power plants and a railway in the Alps. At the outbreak of the War he became general director, then Minister of Munitions. Thereafter, until his death, he held 14 ministries in various cabinets. Often called "the Stinnes of France," M. Loucheur helped draft the economic sections of the Treaty of Versailles, negotiated Reparations payments-in-kind at Wiesbaden with the late Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Reconstruction...
...basis of its factual report, the Commission prepared to draft an effective anti-lynching statute for Southern States which would, somehow, substitute reason for rape...
...Roof. The English theatre can be as sentimental as it can be grim. In this play, sentimental John Galsworthy, assisted by sentimental Producer Charles Hopkins, has demonstrated an overwhelming faith in mankind. It is a play, or rather the rough draft of a play, about four sets of British folk in a small Paris hotel. In one room are three men and a 1 boy come to Paris-Berris to them, as they are actually British-for a lark. In another are two lovers, enjoying the prelude to what promises to be a grand passion. A porky gentleman...
...During the draft riots of 1863, mobs stampeded the streets, hunting Negroes. The Church of the Transfiguration had previously been believed to be an "underground station" for runaway slaves. Dr. Houghton, stanch Abolitionist, hid many Negroes in it during the riots, once stood defiantly at the gate shouting: "You white devils, you! Do you know nothing of the spirit of Christ?" Today in the Church is a memorial to George & Elizabeth Wilson. Negro doorkeepers, representing the baptism of the Ethiopian by St. Philip...