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...alternatives. The Allies could take their choice, and in either case they would get 15 billion dollars over 37 years. The first offer (which so enraged the French and British that they almost for got there was a second) provided that if Germany were granted "access to colonial raw material," preferential tariff treatment from the Allies, and "economic communi cation with the detached province of East Prussia, then the Fatherland would pledge unconditional payment of the 15 billion dollars. The second offer provided for pay ment of the same amount but was conditional and so drawn as to provide even...
...nerves already raw from the public interest taken in his social battle in behalf of Mrs. Gann (TIME, April 15), the Vice President last week exploded on the matter of his Mayflower rent. Said he with hot feeling...
Tariff. Still in committee, this legislation promised to furnish prime excitement for the session. That rates on agricultural products should go higher no one denied. Whether rates on raw materials and manufactured goods would be likewise increased, contrary to the wishes of President Hoover, remained the major uncertainty...
...years Coolidge economy was the prime raw material for the japes of Washington newsmen's famed Gridiron Club. Last week at the club's spring dinner, new material offered itself for roasting- Hoover Efficiency. From 7:30 p. m. to 12:30 a. m. the 50 active club members entertained the President, the Vice President, the Chief Justice, the Cabinet, foreign envoys and themselves with snappers, skits, topical songs. Burlesque, ridicule and sarcasm heaped upon the White House. President Hoover, who spoke, took all with great good grace...
...holdings are wide and diverse. Not only does it own sugar refining plants but also a cooperage company, a coal company, and 300,000 acres of Cuban sugar land, equipped with factories and a railroad. This property produces 12% of all the company's raw sugar requirements...