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Placid as a still pool has been the great U. S. political issue of Power in recent months. But last week there was dropped into the subject an incident which came from such an eminence, with such publicity, that though the actual splash quickly subsided, the ripples seemed almost certain to be perceivable, perhaps as waves, long later in U. S. history...
...voted down a motion by Sir Austen Chamberlain to censure the Government for failing to alleviate unemployment. In the stodgy debate which followed (but got nowhere), Prime Minister MacDonald announced that, on the basis of a proposal by Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, the Liberal and Labor parties will pool their "best brains" in a conference to devise "work schemes." Efforts had been made to induce the Conservatives into this conference, and to label unemployment before the House as "a non-partisan issue," but Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin shrewdly abstained from entanglement...
Other women aboard the flaming Fairfax congregated astern. Some prayed, some sang the University of Maine's "Stein Song."* Finally the holocaust was quenched, the radio repaired, help obtained from S.S. Gloucester of the same line, which hurried passengers to Boston hospitals. Leaving a pool of fire fed for hours by the submerged Pinthis, the Fairfax limped in under her own steam...
...crude producer and refiner) bought Transcontinental Oil (small but well-integrated and recently prosperous; Amos L. Beaty, former Chairman of Texas Corp., has been Transcontinental Chairman since August 1929; 1929 earnings $4,723,990, three times 1928). The union is logical because the companies jointly control rich Yates Pool in Pecos County, Texas...
...raised by the class of 1930, is the lowest donated in recent years. Last year's graduating class gave $1,142 with a total of 167 contributors. In the preceding year, $849 was gathered from 144 gifts, while in 1927, the pool almost reached the $2000 mark when 267 members of the class gave $1,965.85. Although gifts will be solicited twice a year until the class' twenty-fifth reunion, money for the fund will be received at any time by the Class Agent...