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Finally the President reached the crux of his oration, his protest against the attempt of Germany and Austria to form a zollverein (customs union), leading perhaps to anschluss (political union) of two of the firmest foes of France (TIME, March 30; April...
Tobacco when he looked at the pile of proxies to be voted in his favor at the stockholders' meeting last week. No similar pleasure accrued to Stockholder Rich ard Reid Rogers who had attempted to muster a bloc in protest of President Hill's $2,000,000 bonus (TIME, March 23). When balloting time came Dissenter Rog ers saw his candidate for the directorate receive a paltry 11,980 votes out of 2,627,953. Angry, he spoke of carrying on his uphill anti-Hill fight in the courts. Emptier Plates. From a sales volume...
Nothing so exasperates farmers and their friends as to hear a friend of the manufacturers and their Tariff talk scornfully about Government-nurtured Prosperity. A howl of protest went up in Washington against Senator Reed's suggestion. Charles Collins Teague, the Farm Board's vice chairman, declared that $289,050,019 of the Board's $500,000,000 revolving fund was out on amply secured loans to co-operatives and "a large part, if not all, the money loaned will be returned to the Treasury." Oregon's Senator McNary, declaring Senator Reed's proposal "absurd," harked back to the Board...
Senator Bingham, of Connecticut, is the latest to raise his voice in protest at the majority Republican policy of meeting the impending federal deflcit by large scale borrowing. He champions in its stead a taxation of a greater proportion of the population. Under the present system corporations and the very wealthy bear the chief burden of national support. Mr. Bingham believes that the more people paying taxes, the greater will be the sense of public responsibility for national economy. At present, he feels that the un-taxes portion of the public forces large appropriations from the government under the impression...
...Harvard CRIMSON has made a sharp protest against the proposal of the corporation to build a great new chapel as a war memorial. The New York Times ridicules the protest, saying: "Some of the children are bawling in the college papers": "So the infants bleat"; and more to the same effect. One of the editors of the Harkness Hoot, in a letter to the Yale Daily News, strongly supports the CRIMSON. The honors, in our judgment, rest with the younger generation. The grounds of objection to the proposed memorial actually set forth by both the editors and the contributors...