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...Net result of the canvassing of peers old and young last week by Lord Parmoor was a most creditable compromise. The Labor Government agreed to put through the "dole" bill with a three-year limit, instead of the one year desired by the House of Lords, thus saving faces all round and en abling the measure to be wisely labeled "experimental." Said the Laborite Daily Herald, official organ of prudent Scot MacDonald...
...drawing on the Reichsbank's large reserve, which up to now has absorbed 20% per annum of the profits. Under the Schacht Solution only 10% instead of 20% would go into the reserve fund, and after deducting 12% for the guaranteed stockholder's dividend almost the whole remaining net profit would be turned over to the German Treasury. Estimators figured, last week, that this would increase the revenue drawn by the State from the Reichsbank five or six times...
...Government would be forced by public opinion to curtail the Reichsbank's profitable right of issue. Under the new plan imputations of profiteering can hardly arise, yet the stockholders will receive?if they agree to take it?the liberal guaranteed return of 12%. "Fair" though this may seem, the net result was to send Reichsbank shares down from 319 marks to 310 last week. But they had risen to 319 from a quotation of 280 a fortnight previous, buoyed up by rumors that the Schacht Solution would be not merely "fair" but "generous...
...Manhattan Francis T. Hunter, 36, No. 2 in national ranking, found stocky little Julius Seligson, 21, weak at the net and at smashing, beat him 6-1, 6-2, 6-2, to win the U. S. Indoor Tennis Championship...
...what looked like an offside play, Giddens took the puck from Wood near the blue line and, cleverly eluding an opposing defender, flipped in into the right corner of the net. It was an outstanding piece of work by Harvard's Canadian flash, but it put an end to a game of what was for the most part uninteresting hockey...