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...party's greatest industrialist, Owen D. Young, General Electric's board chairman, appeared in Manhattan to retort to the Republican campaign of fear: "It is no time to make threats. Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions. Threats can destroy business just as they can build barricades. Let no one be afraid-let no one be coerced. . . . The plant manager who thinks he is indispensable to the plant and that no change can be made without ruin is likely to think that the old machine is better than the new, that scientific progress is a myth...
...tariff or by a quota system forcing buyers in the United Kingdom to import more of these things from the Dominions, especially Australia. Mr. Bruce added a long list of articles (notably meat) on which Australia wants preferential treatment, asserting of course that Australia, if generously treated, will respond no less generously...
...University scarcely asked too much for what it offered; it simply launched the Plan on a scale of living which taxed the undergraduate pocketbook too severely. Fortunately, however, it has belatedly reduced excessively high food charges; and there is every prospect that during the summer the Corporation will respond to undergraduate pressure by reducing room rents...
...business of the convention will be transacted as follows: After the election of delegation chairmen, Mr. Shouse will deliver his keynote speech. Debate on the platform will follow. After the adoption of the platform, the Clerk will call the role of States, and each state will respond either by making a nominating speech, by yielding to another state, or by declining to nominate a candidate. After the complete roll has been called, the balloting will begin, and the remainder of the session will be devoted to the nomination of candidates...
...Washington, D. C., the police radio commanded: "Scout car No. 10 go to Georgia Ave. & Taylor St. Police being attacked." The message came over Scout car No. 10's receiving set but Policemen Smooh and Renner were too busy to respond. They were the police being attacked at Georgia Ave. & Taylor...