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Silver. At the chairman's request and over the protest of Southwestern members the House voted to drop a 30? per oz. duty on this metal, restore it to the free list...
...CRIMSON's "swing to the right," first at the appearance of the protest signed by 51 alumni, and now, with the formulation of the "Harvard Square Deal Association," has quite possibly been misinterpreted. Obviously, to accept the University's miserliness and technical evasions would be an abrupt about-face from its previous attitude. Editorially, the CRIMSON has declared itself out of sympathy with the attempt, first of the Alumni and, secondly, of the student group, mainly because of the attendant publicity and a resultant inquisitiveness of the world into a private matter which should be solved primarily by Harvard...
This and the increased taxes of all sorts provided in Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden's Budget (TIME, April 21), stirred to wrath and protest the Englishman who married Miss Helen Vivien Gould (daughter of Jay) and her millions: John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, fifth Baron Decies, D. S. O., lately of the 7th Hussars, onetime Chief Press Censor for Ireland...
...protest against British firing on a mob at Peshawar, a funeral procession of 60 coffins was staged last week, but when British police poked the corpses about half of them leaped from their coffins, ran. Magnificent was the restraint of police at Bombay, where thousands of St. Gandhi's sympathizers were allowed to parade past the great stone arch called "The Gateway of India," past the Royal Yacht Club, past the Taj Mahal Hotel...
...British goods reached such proportions that the Japanese Government railways cut freight and railway rates to speed goods from Japanese factories to boats destined for India, so that Japan may get all possible business while the getting is good; 2) His Majesty's Viceroy, Baron Irwin, accepted the "protest resignation" of the Speaker of the Indian assembly; 3) the Bombay stock exchange and other business houses closed for a day "in protest" when St. Gandhi's secretary was arrested; 4) Baron Irwin proclaimed that "civil disobedience . . . is rapidly developing . . . into violent resistance to the constituted authority...