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Omitted from the Court Circular, usually meticulous in announcing movements of members of the Royal Family, was a luncheon at Buckingham Palace last week of the Queen Mother, the King and Queen and the Earl & Countess of Athlone. This was to consider the draft of a financial settlement for the Duke of Windsor brought from Austria by Sir Walter Monckton, and the Royal Family had to face among other matters the Duke's demand that provision be made not only for himself during his lifetime but for Mrs. Simpson, irrespective of whether he lives or dies. Windsor...
Another case of conflicting interests over another and bigger foreign defaulter was before SEC last week. After more than two years of futile effort to get Germany to amplify registration statements covering $69,000,000 worth of 3% scrip to be issued to present holders of German bonds in settlement of past-due interest, SEC finally gave up. It allowed the registration to become effective but not without a bold attempt to supply on its own hook some of the missing information it deemed vital to investors, particularly a hint as to the Reich's "secret debt...
Grant said that production would start March 16. He and his assistants will try to portray as many of the various activities in the settlement houses as possible. However, the cinema will include many scenes from Phillips Brooks House itself, such as views of the work of the Foreign Students, Gradfell, Freshman, and Speakers Committees...
...Murchison agreed 1) that the Japan Cotton Spinners' Association, whose members own 98% of Japan's 11,000,000 spindles, was powerful enough in itself to make a binding agreement; 2) that both the Japanese and the U. S. Governments would be delighted by a private settlement in which the pomps of diplomacy were not involved. Mr. Sayre talked it over with Ambassador Saito at the Japanese Embassy. Dr. Murchison proceeded to organize a committee. At high noon the day before Christmas, President Murchison, Manufacturers Harry Bailey of New York, Donald Comer of Alabama, Casson Callaway of Georgia...
...concentrate on the Handbook, and work on a final clothes drive at the end of the year, gathering old discarded clothes and books which can be used the next year. This group also does some social service work and tries to interest other members of their class in the settlement houses. It is interesting to note that through the time given by undergraduates to these houses over three thousand people in Greater Boston were influenced last year...