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...objection?" This, correspondents pleaded, was not enough. A reigning monarch is never interviewed, but could they not have the honor of quoting Siam's former King of the North and of the South, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-brother of the Sun and Possessor of the Four and Twenty Golden Umbrellas...
...promote foreign trade. But up to last week only one such agreement (with Cuba) had been signed. In November U. S. exports were worth $195,000,000 (devalued dollars), up $11,000,000 from a year earlier, although, calculated in old gold dollars, U. S. foreign trade was at ebb, touching its Depression low in July...
Just at this ebb period in industry, the subject of poverty is especially pertinent, but a man who expects to loll leisurely in the library glancing at pictures of idiots, imbeciles, morons and thyroid sufferers will get a jolt in a very short time. Even, poverty can be prosaic, and the administration of a wel- fare society when presented with a sober lack of expression and in intricately balanced sentences does not encourage strict attention
...dismally failed to settle the two-year-old war between Paraguay and Bolivia. To the outside world that failure had been just one more body blow to the League's reputation as a peacemaker. Not since it was founded was the League's prestige at a lower ebb. Japan and Germany had thumbed their noses, given notice of withdrawal. The Disarmament Conference was dead before it reassembled. Something had to be done. Captain Eden turned hopefully to the Chaco battlefields...
...Seattle, city of red hot politics, was in an unhappy financial state. Its credit was at low ebb and its tax anticipation warrants were hardly salable. In that condition it chose for mayor Lawyer John Fairfax Dore who, campaigning on a program of drastic economy, broke all records for vote-getting (TIME, March 21, 1932). Last week Seattle's mayoralty choice rolled around again and Mayor Dore stood for reelection...