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...Samuel, Sir Donald MacLean and Sir Archibald Sinclair. From a solemn Cabinet at No. 10 Downing St., Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald emerged with an announcement: Cabinet members who were unable to agree with the majority were at liberty to speak and to vote against the bill in Parliament. The move saved the Cabinet, but political opponents raged...
...Board of regents of the University of Wisconsin has made a commendable move toward international friendship in restoring to Germans and German-Americans the honorary degrees taken from them during the hysteria of the World...
Once organized, the R. F. C. directors will begin immediately to accumulate operating capital. Congress, as a starter, will vote a direct appropriation of $500,000,000 from the Treasury. Then R. F. C. will move to raise $1.500,000,000 from the public by the sale of its bonds, debentures, short-term notes. R. F. C. securities will be underwritten by the U. S. Government. Much depends upon this public sale which Wall Street envisages as a sort of Liberty Loan drive. President Hoover hopes that plain citizens, rather than banks and trusts, will be heavy investors. To pave...
...dissolute Russian scoundrel-brigand was plotting to tear another strip out of the ragged map of China. In Mukden, Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune stumbled into a war council between five Mongolian princes and General Gregory Semenov and emerged to wireless his paper of a move to set up an independent state in Inner Mongolia...
...These resultant motions", says Professor Haertlein, "are carefully measured, and show, for example, how much one end of a steel bridge will move when traffic is rumbling over the other extremity, thus giving the engineers an idea of the strength and practicability of the contemplated structure...