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...Boverat mobilized against Miss Warner the powerful forces of the National Alliance for Increasing the Population of France, which tucks an illustrated manual of instruction into the knapsack of every French recruit and has obtained exemption from Army service for every Frenchman with six children or more, reduced railway tickets for families with three or more, many another benefit for the fecund. Within a few hours M. Boverat had obtained a police order barring Miss Warner from dancing at the Bagdad. Next he got her indicted "for an offense against the public's sense of shame...
...Chancellor said that he has given not "risky relief" but "stimulating relief" to Britain. "Railway traffic, bank clearings and retail trade all show a steady rise," continued Mr. Chamberlain. "The index of production in the building industry?a good barometer?has risen to the record figure of 181, taking 1930 as 100. Imports of raw materials have increased. These are all hopeful pointers." By implication Chancellor Chamberlain attributed them to his Treasury policies which he aptly summed up as "always keeping in the forefront the necessity of maintaining confidence...
...apoplexy; in Berlin. Archduke Leopold caused a sensation in 1903 by giving up titles, power and wealth to marry an actress (Vilma Adamovic), divorced her four years later when she became a nudist and vegetarian, married a servant girl (Marie Rirter), became by turns a cabaret entertainer, bartender, railway clerk, subscription canvasser, insurance agent, actor, doorman, domestic servant. He died in poverty...
...stepped fatally into the way of a trench mortar shell that fell short. After a while the steel train backed sulkily off again. Twice more, at dawn and at 7:40 a. m., the train lunged at Peiping, blasting away with a 3-in. gun, once getting through the railway tunnel into the Tartar City before it went backing & filling out of sight...
...times fixed charges. It is the only Class I railroad to continue paying 1929 dividends all through Depression. In 1933 it raised its dividends from $2.50 per share to $2.80. And last week C. & O. hung up another record when it awarded contracts for $11,819,000 worth of railway equipment, biggest single order this year. From American Car & Foundry, Pullman-Standard Manufacturing Co., General American Car Co. and Bethlehem Steel Co., C. & O. ordered 5,000 50-ton steel hopper coal cars, 75 steel underframe flat cars and 50 single deck stock cars-a total of 5,125 units...