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After weeks of argument and negotiation(TIME, Sept. 19 et seq.), President Gaston Doumergue signed a decree granting to the U. S. most-of the low tariff rates which U. S. trade enjoyed prior to the recent French tariff revision. The decree will be effective only until such time as a permanent commercial treaty between the two countries can be negotiated, and this depends upon the findings of the U. S. Tariff Commission's enquiry into the possibility of reducing the existing duties on French silk, textiles, perfumes and other deluxe articles. It is not thought possible that...
...only Stadium touchdown since Joe Forecast first pair of rompers. And with that lesson in mind two years later, the Yale backs argued and argued as to who would make the supreme sacrifice but on would do it. And who has ever questioned the courage of Bunnell, Kline, et Al? (Ed Note--Just who this fellow Al is we don't know, but we at least won't question his courage...
Three days later, just after the bricklayer, clerks, telephone instructress, Juror Kidwell, et al. had taken their jury-box seats for the day, Lawyer Atlee Pomerene of the U. S. prosecution counsel announced to the court that he had grave charges to make, that some one had been tampering with the jury...
...entered their high-ceilinged meeting room. President J. Lewis Coath, melancholy-looking, thin-lipped, sat down on his dias, his subordinates at their desks facing him. In their impassiveness they resembled Indians at a pow-wow with white men. Superintendent Wm. McAndrew, on trial for insubordination (TIME, Sept. 12 et seq.), looked at them with contempt. Another of his many intermittent hearings was about to commence...
...laboratory he treated glycerin with certain acids and got fats, oils and butters. He combined hydrogen and carbon by means of the voltaic arc and got acetylene. "Berthelot condenses it [acetylene] under the action of heat and behold, we have benzine," writes Premier Poincaré in the current Chimie et Industrie, French periodical. "He adds hydrogen and behold, there appears ethylene, which, united with water, will produce alcohol. He places it in contact with air and with an alkaline solution-and behold, acetic acid or vinegar. If I were to enumerate all his successful reconstructions I should never...