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...greatest warships in the world is H. M. S. Nelson* which upped anchor in Portsmouth harbor last week and steamed out to sea at ebb tide. Just at the harbor mouth the 33,500-ton island of grey steel nosed into a bank of soft mud and stuck. On board was the new com mander of Britain's Home Fleet, Vice-Admiral Sir William Henry Dudley ("Ginger") Boyle, K. C. B. Along the deck went he to the control tower, to confer with the Commanding Officer Captain Patrick Macnamara, well known in Washington last year as British naval attach...
Second, the holding of foreign exchange reserves in various countries in what has became known as ear-marked gold was commented upon as a practice that has to a large extent prevented the automatic ebb and flow of gold from operating and exercising corrective checks on purchasing power and price levels...
...Laughton feels with the audience that he had better get on to his business. Each of the six queens is dutifully trotted out, and as some of them were in real life fascinating and unfascinating and some unfascinating, so are they in the picture. But there is neither ebb nor flow in Mr. Laughton himself; he is equal to every demand, be it lusty humour or Henry's regal kind of lechery, and he has made Henry, although a buffoon, a superbly consistent and human one. No comic possibility of the Tudor coarseness has been left unexplored, no detail...
...city's credit being at dead low ebb, Mayor O'Brien badly needed the bankers' goodwill. Governor Lehman's pressure was gentle but firm. And this interesting item came to light: Among Counsel Samuel Untermyer's realty investments is a second mortgage of $2,050,000 on No. 42 Broadway, recorded in the names of two sons, Alvin and Irwin. No. 42's tenants include such big brokerages as DeCoppet & Doremus, J. S. Bache & Co., Hornblower & Weeks, Logan & Bryan...
...helped put through legislation which imposed a penalty tax upon employers of child labor. But the Supreme Court was not to be fooled by any such oblique methods of social reform and in 1922 declared the penalty tax also unconstitutional. The Child Labor cause was at low ebb but not Mrs. Kelley's dauntless zeal. Only a Constitutional Amendment, she now realized, would do the trick and this...