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...covenant-breaking State, and the prevention of all financial, commercial or personal intercourse between the nations of the covenant-breaking and the nationals of any other State, whether a member of the League or not. It shall be the duty of the Executive Council in such case to recommend what effective military or naval or air force the Members of the League shall severally contribute to the armed forces to be used to project the covenants of the League. The high contracting parties agree further that . . . they will afford passage through their territory to the forces...
Your magazine is good. I like it, and not only read it myself every week, but also sell and recommend it on the newsstand in my drugstore...
Five captains were recommended for promotion to the rank of Rear Admiral?but the conspicuous absence on this list was the name of Captain John Keeler Robison, who is Chief of the Bureau of Engineering of the Navy Department, a post which carries with it the temporary rank of Rear Admiral. Last year, he was recommended for the permanent rank of Rear Admiral. The President did not nominate him to the Senate for the rank, however. The reason was that it was he who, acting for Secretary Denby, had O.K.'d the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases to Sinclair...
Last week, following the failure of the Naval Selection Board to recommend him for promotion, Admiral Robison applied for transfer to the retired list. If he waited until next November, he would be retired as a Captain. By retiring now he retains the rank of Rear Admiral...
...Situation. The tariff on sugar is 1.764c a pound. The Commission has authority to investigate demands for changes in the tariff and recommend changes based on differences in cost of production here and abroad. The President has authority to act on such recommendations, reducing of increasing specific tariffs by not more than 50 per cent. The Tariff Commission (one member not sitting) recommended 1) by majority of three, a reduction of tariff to 1.2302c a pound, 2) by minority of two, a reduction to 1.7616c a pound...