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...Director Lord of the Budget Bureau issued the final figures on the Treasury's year-writing the final chapter of the book which might be written on the expectations and predictions on how the year would end. At the low end of the scale was the point where a deficit of $823,000,000 was expected. At the other end of the scale was the final announcement of General Lord, a $310,000,000 surplus on June 30. While the $310,000,000 surplus of revenues over expenditures (including sinking fund and interest on the public debt) was unexpectedly...
...House of Lords, Lord Curzon, Foreign Minister, said: " There is no chance of our agreeing in any circumstances whatever to the American proposal for a twelve-mile territorial limit." His contention was that, while the United States had a legal right to seize liquor under seal, she was in fact violating international custom...
...Lord Birkenhead, ex-Lord High Chancellor, advocated diplomatic action of a tactful and courteous nature, of which, he remarked slyly, " the Foreign Secretary was capable...
AREN'T WE ALL-Smart, sophisticated, sparkling English comedy, giving Cyril Maude every opportunity to score as a delightful old reprobate lord who sought his amourettes in the depths of the British Museum...
...Folies Bergeres with chorines suspended in it quite literally, by the skin of their teeth-a Jewel Shop number calculated by its extravagant gorgeousness to drive impecunious husbands quite insane- a number on Prohibition-a resurrection of Tut-Ankh-Amen with everything there but the fly that bit Lord Carnarvon...