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...cause of this "buying panic"-which did not assume dangerous proportions-was twofold: 1) Finance Minister Loucheur had just presented the Chamber with the first draft of a new tax bill expected to raise eight billion additional francs per annum, by increasing the taxes on alcohol, business transactions and practically everything else; 2) The franc slipped down last week to 27 to the $1, a new low record for the year. The relative stability of numerous foreign currencies, prompted the harassed Jean to transfer his currency into pounds, gulden, Scandinavian kroner, U. S. dollars...
...Representative Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House, called on the President to say that his committee would probably draft a public buildings bill carrying appropriations of $165,000,000 to be expended over the next six years, $50,000,000 of it for housing Government activities in the Capital...
Once more the great public diversion and private pleasure, tax cutting, came to the front; for the Ways and Means Committee of the House assembled in Washington to draft a new tax reduction law for the Congress that meets in December. The lines of the fight were well laid down in advance of the hearing. Everyone-Administration and opposition-is for it. The question is, what and how much...
...manuscripts is an original draft of the opening chapters of Conrad's "Lord Jim," one of the author's most brilliant psychological studies of character. The paper is much interlined, and shows what extensive changes were made by the author before the final draft was sent to the publishers. A comparison of the manuscript with the printed page is made easy by the way the manuscript is placed in the Treasure Room exhibit, the original draft and a printed volume being placed side by side...
Then the League of Nations seized his imagination. Under the leadership of Wilson he helped draft the Covenant. In 1919 he received the Nobel Peace prize. On Jan. 16, 1920, he presided as first Chairman of the Council of the League at its first meeting in Paris. In 1923 he resigned the Presidency of the French Senate, which he had held since 1918, in order to devote himself to the League. The recent session of the League Council found him too ill to attend. But he died in a measure triumphant, "the Spiritual Father of the League...