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...after this incident Secretary of Commerce Hoover issued an exhortation to automobile users, garage men, et al., to save tires, declaring that, without decreasing the use of automobiles, by patching and proper use of tires it would be possible to decrease the U. S. consumption of rubber 25% and partly protect the country from a loss of $700,000,000 a year in excess profits being taken by foreign rubber producers...
...Imperator et Rex, was pleased to accept the responsibilities of authorship for an address which read in part as follows...
...extreme gravity of the present fiscal crisis in France (TIME, Dec. 28 et ante) was again made evident last week by the failure of Premier Briand and Finance Minister Doumer to secure the unanimous support of the Cabinet for M. Doumer's fiscal program for the coming year...
...once a notable stir was created in Paris. Numerous papers, led by Le Matin, demanded that Captain Canning should be fully heard and every effort made to put an end to the expensive and unpopular war which France is waging in Morocco (TIME, Dec. 28 et ante). Meanwhile the Foreign Office coquetted with the idea of giving official cognizance to a purely self-styled envoy...
Postponement. The Extraterritoriality Conference of the nine Powers (signatories to the Chinese treaties negotiated at President Harding's famed "Washington Disarmament Conference") was indefinitely postponed because of the extremely chaotic political situation now existing in China (TIME, Dec. 21, et ante). The conferees were to have assembled at Peking last week, where the Nine-Power Chinese Customs Conference is at present marking time owing to the impotence of "the Peking Gov- ernment of China," with which both conferences expected to deal...