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Premiers Baldwin of Britain and Poincaré of France met in conclave at Paris. It was reported that they had not decided upon any definite solution of the Ruhr problem but that they "had agreed upon a common policy." As a result the Entente Cordiale is said to be closer than it has been for months. The Allies wait for the official end of passive resistance, which Chancellor Stresemann was reported to have "announced." following a five-hour conference with 300 representative spokesmen from the Ruhr and Rhineland at which it was "unanimously agreed that further opposition was futile...
Opium. The Assembly suggested that two conferences be held to discuss the opium problem. The first would comprise representatives of countries having Far Eastern possessions, such as France, Portugal, Britain, Japan, Holland, India; it would be entirely concerned with the suppression of opium smoking. The second would be concerned with the limitation of the use of manufactured drugs such as morphine and cocaine. One or both of the conferences would be held in Washington...
...feminist cigarette are among the culprits blamed for these conditions. The Federal Reserve Bank has an efficient medical department with six nurses and five doctors, and provides six months' leave on salary for employees who need it. Other banks are reticent, but admit the presence of the problem...
...keep two cars for the sake of their position but they could not afford the most necessary repairs on their farms. As a matter of economic fact they cumbered the ground, and the slow pressure of economic facts at last destroyed them. A thorough, complete dissection of an acute problem in present-day England-well worth reading...
...certain to be hard and close, and it is questionable whether the first eleven can be used as much as is necessary in these games and yet come through physically fit to face Princeton and then Yale through four long quarters. The situation confronts the coaches with a perplexing problem...