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...list of tentative assignments as drawn up by the Masters and supplemented by the Central Committee was then turned over to the respective Masters for final review because it was understood at all times that the function of the Central Committee was merely to make an equitable distribution of the applicants; whether or not a man so assigned would be accepted rested entirely with the Master. Except for a few minor adjustments, however, the assignments suggested by the Central Committee were accepted...
...Within 15 minutes the Chicago Board of Trade, the grain markets of St. Louis and Kansas City were closed to prevent a buying panic. The New Orleans' Cotton Exchange stayed open and the price of cotton jumped $1 a bale. The New York Stock Exchange likewise continued to function, although the ticker fell eleven minutes behind sales. The stock of the Baltimore & Ohio-the gold clause of whose bonds had been specifically invalidated by the decision-soared from a forenoon price of 10 to 15. Other railroad stocks made similar gains; the market seethed...
Three days later the Fascist Grand Council rated Excellency Cianetti's experiment "successful," extended without limit Italian industry's obligation to function on the 40-hour week...
...Ministers of the Little Entente Rumania's towering Titulescu, Czechoslovakia's astute Benes and Yugoslavia's subtle Jeftitch. Because of them the "Little Entente" is in effect a supplementary Great Power. By their recent Pact of Organization, reenforcing their longstanding entente, the three countries agree to function in international affairs as a single unit, represented at a given place and moment by whichever Little Entente Foreign Minister the other two have designated...
Only hunting cheetah in the U. S., the Donahue cheetah has no name, sleeps on his owner's bed or in a kennel. Last week, after helping publicize the dog show, the cheetah failed to return to its normal function, that of publicizing Woolworth Donahue. Instead, left to its own devices in the Donahue boathouse at Palm Beach, it quickly ran away...