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Charges: 1) The riots should have been foreseen but were not. 2) Arab outbreaks were precipitated by frustrated Arab political aspirations, for which the British were responsible. 3) British troops and police were insufficient to maintain order in Palestine. 4) Arab interests in the face of Jewish colonization were not safeguarded...
President Hoover hoped for three things to maintain the lower tax rate: 1) a sudden increase in customs receipts; 2) $75,000,000 economies in his departments; 3) cash instead of security payments by foreign debtor nations to be applied to current expenditures...
...subjected to more unjust and unwarranted attacks. ... I am conscious of my own integrity. I have never been accustomed to give ground under fire, every personal inclination I have is to fight this thing to a finish. . . . In the past it has been the policy of party leaders to maintain a solid front under enemy fire but as this has not been the policy in the present case, I have reached the conclusion, putting the interest of the Republican party ahead of personal consideration, that I should tender my resignation...
Troubles of Hankow and the Communist army distracted world attention last week from China's other war, that of President Chiang Kai-shek fighting to maintain the Nationalist Government against the insurrection of the Peking warlords. Both factions, as usual, were claiming an equal number of victories, matching their toll of deaths and captures. Torrential floods actually stopped hostilities...
...cost of production. If wheat flour could be bought at $1 the people would consume more flour. It will also help to eliminate the cheaper by-products now mixed with wheat flour. So long as the Board merely stores wheat, the miller will pay 60? for wheat and maintain the flour price based on $1.20 wheat. The Farm Board so far has been a Millers Board...