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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Petition, Tragedy, Advice. Moved by a petition in which 1,200 U.S. citizens, many of them clerics, urged him not to abandon the goal of reducing armaments, chief U.S. delegate Henry Lewis Stimson announced that a minimum 200,000 ton reduction of the U.S. fleet, and an even larger reduction of the British fleet is possible insofar as these nations by themselves are concerned, but basically the announcement was a left-handed reminder that everything depended on the attitude of "other powers...
Accordions are popularly associated with tobacco-chewing rustics and pomaded Italian vaudevillians. Yet Manhattan music dealers reported last week that the piano-accordion, retailing at a minimum of $250, is now their best-selling instrument, exceeding even the saxophone family. Buyers, they said, include all classes from socialites to day-laborers. Principal reason advanced to account for the accordion's increasing popularity: it reproduces excellently over the radio. Added reason: it requires no accompanying instrument...
...whole of them as a unit. You see, all of the various cities that combine to make up the metropolis of London have separate independent governments and yet they all send representatives to the country-council in London. This system enables them to keep their taxes at a minimum...
Boatmen are swimming instructors or sailing masters at yacht clubs. An expert knowledge of sailing and swimming is usually the minimum requirement...
...Long have there been rumors current that a corner has been attempted in rye, the operator being mentioned as "the recent inheritor of a $25,000,000 fortune, working from Providence with a former Russian grain expert as adviser." The pool's losses are placed at a minimum of $5,000,000 plus enormous carrying charges. Last week one story said the pool had suffered more losses, but another said they had sensed the impending wheat disaster, profited by a timely raid...