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Soon from the Vatican came the Summus Pontifex's command that every church in Rome should hold a service of expiation. This was done forthwith...
Next to the Army's Chief of Staff rank the heads of the four combatant services: cavalry, field artillery, infantry, air corps. To succeed Major General Fred Thaddeus Austin, retired, as Chief of Field Artillery, President Hoover last week appointed Col. Harry Gore Bishop, 56, who forthwith became a Major General and No. 1 Gunner...
...despatch from Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, commander of Norway's current Antarctic expedition (TIME, Sept. 9). Steaming at tortoise pace on his little ship Norvegia along the rim of Antarctica, Capt. Riiser-Larsen found time and thought hanging heavily. What if his coal should run out? thought he. Forthwith he busied himself with "a little experiment which I think will be of interest to our friends back in civilization...
...Conference had substantially agreed to sign forthwith the protocol of the Reparations Plan, drafted at Paris last spring under the chairmanship of Owen D. Young, by a committee of bankers of whom Dr. Schacht was one. He signed the original Paris draft of the Plan, approved the articles establishing a $100,000,000 Bank for International Settlements (B. I. S.), and allowed everyone to assume that of course the Reichsbank would subscribe its allotted quota of the capital...
Normally Mr. Girdler is an even-tempered gentleman. But what he considers injustice "raises his dander." Forthwith he last week fired a fusillade of protesting telegrams. Most significant were the brace which went to Kentucky's Senator Alben William Barkley and Representative Maurice Hudson Thatcher urging them instantly to remind President Hoover and Secretary Lamont of the Hoover opposition against Government competition with private business, to appeal for continued Government purchase and support of private helium...