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...Charges, Of no simple and direct crime did the Government charge the Sugar Institute. The accusation filled a 5.000-word booklet, three pages of which were needed to name the 16 companies and 27 individuals whom Lawyers Fly & Rice desired to restrain from further combination in restraint of trade. For four years, said the United States in Fly-Rice words, the Institute had been operating an elaborate and far-reaching scheme to fix high prices for refined sugar. On 44 counts the Institute was guilty, said the United States, of conspiracy, monopoly, coercion. Item: its members have blacklisted certain warehouses...
...dramatically pointed up when 69-year-old Aristide Briand collapsed in the Chamber Nov. 17 and lay for a few moments crumpled down upon his desk. As chairman of the League Council (both before and after this collapse) Old Brer Briand lost further prestige by failing utterly to restrain the aggression of Japan in Manchuria. Meanwhile short Premier Laval and his tremendously tall, broad-shouldered and aggressive Finance Minister, Pierre Etienne Flandin, were fighting through the Chamber their fiscal program for next year...
August 30--Whether any government have a right to restrain emigration...
...than she should know the alarm with which women are viewed by the members of the Greatest Club in the World? She better than most people could feel last week the polite frigidity which permeated the Senate's stag atmosphere at news of her appointment. Her presence will restrain the free-&-easy language of the Democratic cloakroom. It may necessitate the construction of a private lavatory. Some Senators may feel shy about spitting their tobacco juice in a lady's presence. The Greatest Club will be changed...
...international" U. S. bankers already hold); might also decide that the Gold Standard is inadequate to back world credit needs (an alternative being bimetallism) and might finally pave the way, according to opinion heard in London last week, for some sort of broad agreement by the Great Powers to restrain overproduction and "rationalize" world trade...