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...Lest U. S. motorists should begin to clamor prematurely for cheaper tires, Rubberman Henderson added hastily...
...Cinema Censorship Commission had taken no action, up to last week, on any of the 380 U. S. films now awaiting its approval. Since sales to French exhibitors for the forthcoming season are customarily made in April, U. S. film representatives were fuming with uneasiness in Paris, last week, lest the Commission diddle and dawdle until the films submitted to it lose most of their sales value...
...President Wilson chose Mr. Baruch for chairman of the almost omnipotent War Industries Board, charged with controlling and purchasing all the raw materials and industrial fabrications the Allies required of the U.S. to prosecute the War. Upon accepting this post, Mr. Baruch sold out enormously valuable stock holdings lest they bias his judgment, and at Washington (as Writer Mark Sullivan said) went "flying down the road with his tail over the dash board . . . regardless of authorization, money or detail. When there isn't any money available, he uses his own." There being some trouble over renting an office floor...
...tableau ended the ceremony when Captain French and Coach Horween clasped hands just out of reach of the flames. Lest any of the spectators should not see the allegory, the fourth assistant manager ran forward and set up at their feet a sign reading "SPRING FOOTBALL...
...statesmen were busy with speculation as to what will happen when the League Council meets. Of the Great Powers only France is really anxious to force a show down with Hungary in the interest of her small national allies, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania. Italy must presumably oppose any action, lest she herself be proved to have shipped arms to Hungary in violation of the Treaty of Trianon. Germany is expected to take the same stand, though for the different reason that she fears the establishment of a precedent which would confirm the League's right to investigate German supplies...