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German Arms: "Simultaneously . . . Germany should resume her place in the League of Nations" and Europe's armament problems should receive a "general settlement" based on "equality of rights in a system of security. . . . This settlement would establish agreements regarding armaments generally, which in the case of Germany, would replace the provisions of part of the Treaty of Versailles at present limiting arms and armed forces in Germany...
...armful of bouquets from them- and a shower of brickbats from organized reporters. Over the protest of the American Newspaper Guild, President Roosevelt ordered the National Labor Relations Board to pass the case of Dean Sothern Jennings back to the Newspaper Code Authority's Industrial, Board for final settlement...
...Exchange contracts. So the shorts caught in the squeeze defaulted, were ordered to liquidate their contracts with the long interests at 2.08? per lb. cash, which the Exchange claimed was the last spot quotation, plus a penalty of ¼?per lb. The longs complained that this was a sour settlement for them, that they should get more. Last week, while longs and shorts were bitterly criticizing each other and while the U. S. Senate was passing a resolution to investigate the squeeze, the Coffee & Sugar Exchange scolded both longs and shorts, suspended one sugar brokerage house from the Exchange...
...including Eastman, Dillon & Co. and Lehman Bros., were "admonished" although the Exchange considered the circumstances in their cases "mitigating and understandable." Six others, including Hayden, Stone & Co., reputed to be one of the two biggest shorts involved, were "censured" for failing to cooperate with the Exchange in reaching a settlement. Suspended were B. Wheeler Dyer and his sugar brokerage house of B. W. Dyer & Co., reported to be the other big short. Then the Exchange quietly let it be known that, so far as it was concerned, the incident was closed...
...them to settle their debts in silver as usual on New Year's. Since silver is China's only medium of exchange, Chinese chambers of commerce sent bales of petitions to Nanking, begged their Government to give them at least temporary relief from Roosevelt by announcing that Settlement Day is postponed for one year. Until very recently the Nanking Government's prestige was far too low for chambers of commerce to dream of asking Generalissimo Chiang to proclaim relief from an old Chinese custom made intolerable by the New Deal...