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Things started with a rush when Dr. Carl Joseph Melchior of Hamburg, partner of the German Warburgs, handed out a voluminous memorandum to show that no matter what happens after the Hoover Moratorium, Germany can never again pay Reparations under the stiff schedules laid down by the Young Plan. He had figures to show that the Albert Henry Wiggin Report of last August underestimated Germany's foreign debts by nearly a billion dollars. He admitted that Germany had at the present moment a favorable trade balance of about $83,000,000 a month, but it could not last. German exports...
...squash-ings. Later he got up from the table, complained to the referee against Cul-bertson's "waste of time." Referees decided that, though Lenz magazine articles inveighed against "psychic" bids, and though this match is officially to follow the Lenz and Culbertson systems, a "psychic" bid by Lenz-Partner Jacoby was permissible. Later Lenz objected to a Culbertson breach of system?a partner's raise on a doubleton suit...
...Book, gave it to Mr. Jacoby, asked if Mr. Jacoby wanted it autographed. Said Mr. Jacoby: "I do not." A 15-minute argument over rules occurred when Mr. Culbertson dropped the ace of spades into his lap so that it was seen by his opponents but not by his partner...
...loss of memory suffered when the steel-soled slipper of a girl dancer in the Folies-Bergere flew off and struck him on the forehead, John G. Hopper, explorer, onetime mining partner of Herbert Clark Hoover in Mexico, collected $6,600. He had sued for $12,000, settled out of court...
Died. Charles Hitchcock Tyler, 69, onetime law partner of Owen D. Young; at Beverly, Mass...