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Swiftly the Premier collected the resignations of the members of his Cabinet, added his own thereto, drove straight to President Doumergue at the Elysée, and quit. For the second time within a fortnight France was without a Ministry (TIME...
...hotel in which the Mercedes was exhibited, another car with a steel body by Budd lay on its side?a Jordan which had just rolled down a 90-foot embankment in North Carolina. Mechanics righted it. The body, which had somersaulted six times, was practically unhurt. Away it drove to the Jordan plant 1,000 miles distant to be rehabilitated...
Last week the Ways and Means Committee of the House drove ahead and practically completed the tax bill which it will offer to the House early in December. The preparation of the bill was almost a record for speed and efficiency. The reason for this unusual procedure was simple; the Democrats on the Committee cooperated in drafting the bill instead of trying to oppose every proposition put forward by the majority. It is one of the few important bills in recent years aside from War measures, which the opposition party, whether Democratic or Republican, has not tried...
...Assembling. At the Emory Building not far from the Capitol about the same hour a crowd was assembling in the street. It was not just a street crowd, for in it were women of fashion who drove up in well appointed limousines. All comers without regard to race, religion or record in the social register were lined up in a big queue. Shortly before 10 o'clock about 100 were admitted to the building, but the rest never got any further. An officer in full uniform wearing a colonel's insignia, jauntily swinging a bamboo cane and with a chest...
...Calvin Coolidge, Honorary Moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches, opened the Council's nine-day biennial meeting at Washington with an address (see Page 32, RELIGION). ¶ Dust-covered, in a grimy automobile, a Pennsylvanian drove through the streets of Washington and pulled up at the curb to ask directions. A determined-looking, agile little man, with the alert step of a New England Yankee, was walking by. "Hey, there," called the motorist, "where's the White House? Where's the Capitol?" The little man (Calvin Coolidge) appeared to be familiar with Washington geography...