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Last week the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce swung to the carriers' support, contended that a rate increase would turn the economic trend.. And to the I. C. C. from the North Dakota Board of Railroad Commissioners came the first formal protest against the carriers' proposal on the theory that its authorization "would greatly prolong" the Depression...
Crash, crash! went two windows in the U. S. consulate at Dresden. Plump fell a bottle on the consulate's floor. While young German Communists hooted and whistled outside, an American clerk picked up the bottle, found a note: ''We protest the execution of eight young Negro workers in Alabama. Down with American murder and imperialism! For the brotherhood of black and white young proletarians! An end to the bloody lynching of our Negro co-workers...
Suave, Sir Esmond made no protest at the banquet. Resolute, he exerted quiet pressure later. Last week in the British House of Commons Capt. Victor Cazalet, Oxonian, M. P. who greatly admires money, popped this question...
...thus yielding what Canton had already seized was merely to preserve intact, so far as possible, the complicated customs collection machinery in which numerous foreign experts function as important cogs. Cog A. C. E. Braud, the English Customs Commissioner at Canton, squeaked: "I accept this new arrangement under protest." ¶ Morris Abraham Cohen, English-born Jewish trick-shot pistol expert, was gazetted by the Canton Government last week a Brigadier General. Brigadier General Cohen says he was born in London, says it with the accent and gestures of a New York East Sider. From 1921 until the death of great...
...Premature announcements to the contrary, the $500,000 U. S. Knights of Columbus playgrounds for children in Rome were not reopened last week. In vain Boston's Edward L. Hearn, key Knight of Columbus in Rome, repeated his attempts to persuade the U. S. Embassy to protest...