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...League asserts that the employees were unjustly treated and asks the President to publish the reports of the official investigations of the case. Although the 27 unfortunates have been restored to the civil service, it is declared that their dismissal was irregular, that now they are reinstated at less salary than they formerly received, that their names are unjustly left under a cloud. The New York World comments: " The head of the Arizona Vigilance Committee who said to the bereaved widow, ' The drinks are on us, ma'am; we lynched the wrong man,' expressed the President...
...that an immediate truce be made, that the Republicans dump all arms under pledge that they be handed over to whichever party wins the next election. He pointed out that the Republicans would thus be spared the humiliation of surrender, and yet peace would be fully restored. Tom Barry, irregular leader, was friendly to the proposal. A motion in favor of its adoption was introduced into the Dail Eireann. But Kevin O'Higgins, Free State Minister of Home Affairs, rejected the Archbishop's plan. " There can be no truce on the basis of the proposals of the Archbishop...
...holes thus caused would probably be filled nearly level by molten matter from the interior. As the ball grew by these constant accretions, the corresponding expansion of the surface would both enlarge the diameter of the original craters and in some cases break them up, causing the irregular arcs and mountain chains, just as the designs on a child's balloon change shape when it is inflated. The theory is at least as plausible as any other that has been advanced...
...first the stock market turned dull, daily sales declining beneath a million shares toward the week's close. The price movement in stocks was distinctly irregular, some issues holding their recent advances well under obvious short selling, while others declined. Much of the selling pressure on the stock market is believed to have been exerted by odd-lot investors, as a record volume of transactions by odd-lot houses is reported. On Tuesday, however, a sharp rally in industrial shares ensued...
Wheat was irregular on the expectation that the U. S. Government report of wheat on the farms, forthcoming March 8, would show an excess of about 30 million bushels over the similar surplus of last year. But with this exception, staple commodities almost all tended toward higher prices, sugar especially showing strength. Already there is talk, which may prove mere rumor, of a merger among some of our leading sugar companies...