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...Department of State-to reply in kind, under a "countervailing" clause of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922. But in light of the current tariff imbroglio of France and the U. S. (see p. 18), during which the U. S. Department of State had been at pains to explain that the U. S. tariff policy is not discriminatory, newsgatherers naturally went scurrying to the Department of the Treasury to see whether Assistant Secretary Lowman would accompany his order with a press statement...
...London and Madrid that the conversations between the two statesmen were no more than an exchange of official courtesies. Diplomats then put the whole matter down to an attempt on the part of Sir Austen to guide Spain back into the fold of the League of Nations. How else explain his friendliness for a nation that was not on good terms with the League...
...born into the world it is His Majesty Alfonso XIII. English men do not require to be told this. They know it, for they know him. The King's ascendancy over his subjects, the mastery of his statesmanship, have been shown at every stage of his reign. They explain how the country is held together in progress and prosperity through a thousand political vicissitudes. Elaboration is needless here...
...Ogdensburg, N. Y. (planned by General Electric). Although physical properties of these companies will be as one, their financial fabric cannot be closely knit under present interpretations of anti-trust laws. Anticipating that Congress will discuss such power mergers, interested companies are putting into motion a vast machinery to explain to Congress and to the voters the powerman's attitude...
...likely that he will wander farther afield seeking violets rather than daisies. Nor will he keep too well in mind the strict definition of a student. More often than occasionally he will merely draw a road map to the mine where the gold may be gathered, nor stop to explain the intricacies of its composition. Only at moments of particular timeliness or times of particular moment will he delve more deeply into a subject...