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Until the Russian attack of 1939 put a moratorium on her World War I loan from the U.S., Finland had never missed a remittance day. She had paid the U.S. Government more than $8,000,000 (chiefly in interest) on the original $8,281,926.17 relief loan. After World War II she began paying again, still has $13 million to go. "These remarkable people," declared New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith last winter, "appear determined in a world of forgotten principles to make their country an example of integrity...
After a slight five hour delay at the Bermuda airport, the team left Bermuda at 11 p.m. Sunday night and arrived home about 4:30 a.m. yesterday. The players will take a one day moratorium before resuming practice Wednesday for the international battle with McGill Saturday...
...Spring. But last classes were deceptive. Problems never died away that neatly--never trickled off promptly at one o'clock on Friday or Saturday. If only they did, Vag mused. Wouldn't it be nice to declare a reading period for the Palestine Situation. A sort of academic moratorium, when everyone would catch up on their Required Reading. He wondered if examination conflicts were worse than ideological conflicts. One could be prevented--why not the other? Might set up a committee in charge of examination groups; perhaps a branch of the Italian delegation, assigning roman numerals...
Last month, rather than risk complete collapse, Erleigh gave up. He invited his old partner, conservative Bob Hersov, to take over New Union with the option to buy part of its best properties. Hersov accepted. In order to get a moratorium from New Union's creditors, he threw the company into "judicial management." By taking over New Union, Hersov gave U.S. financiers a major beachhead in South Africa through a comparatively new company, American Anglo-Transvaal Corp. (TIME...
Alarmed by the problem of where vagotomy may eventually lead, two eminent authorities, Dr. Frank H. Lahey, head of Boston's famed Lahey Clinic, and Dr. Russell S. Boles, of the University of Pennsylvania, last week proposed a five-year moratorium on vagotomies to see how the current cases turn...