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...insistence of the Speaker who failed to answer the President's criticism or explain the machinery for private loans the House approved the relief bill 202-to-157. The Senate later passed it 43-to-31. President Hoover vetoed it ten minutes after it reached the White House. "Never before," said he, "has so dangerous a suggestion been seriously made to our country." As a substitute bill he suggested direct relief loans to states, a modest discretionary building program by the U. S. Government and R. F. C. advances to public agencies for self-liquidating construction...
...Lausanne agreement will have final effect only after ratification by the creditor powers as provided in the agreement. This ratification will not be effected until a satisfactory settlement has been reached between them and their own creditors. The creditor powers will have an opportunity to explain the situation to their respective Parliaments but no reference to that must be made in the agreement with Germany...
...observe in the Soviet Union . . . a worship of everything American?that is to say of the land of the dollar, the most consistent capitalist country. . . . How do you explain this...
...younger generation,--of utmost importance according to the 1907 class report,--has largely been groomed in the art of football. To explain baseball with examples and laboratory demonstrations in the aisle, is father's privilege, and yesterday he made the most of it. Crew once afforded father an added opportunity to take the head of the family, but now that Vassar breakfast tables ring with chatter about track and rowing, baseball remains without doubt the only field in which the male parent can be sure of himself in the company of his offspring...
Many a U. S. moppet has pestered his neighbors to buy a package of soap or bluing for 10?. He rarely had to explain that he had answered "that ad in last Sunday's 'funnies.' " The fascinating advertisement in the comic section of his Hearstpaper had told him that for the proceeds of 24 sales, plus a small charge "for wrapping and mailing," he might have a marvellous motion picture machine; or a real cowboy suit. Enterprising little girls were offered talking dolls...