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...will be made, nevertheless Roosevelt's new bargaining position renders it conceivable that a quadrilateral monetary agreement can be reached to revive international exchange from its present coma. Nor is it beyond the realm of sanity to hope that the United States will be able to force a reasonable settlement of the aged war debt problem. Whatever the internal effects of the abandonment of the gold standard may prove to be, it offers a handy instrument for Mr. Roosevelt to wield at the coming conference, and one which he will undoubtedly need if this is not to be just...
...Settlement of the equity action brought against the College Tutoring Bureau by the Macmillan Company, Ginn and Company, and Houghton, Miffin will be made out of court at a conference to be held this week, it was revealed last night. The publishing companies claim that the outlines printed by the College Tutoring Bureau infringe upon the copyrights of several books used in History, Government, and Economics courses...
When Alfonso Sanz y Martinez de Arrizola was 20 in 1901 he brought suit in French courts claiming that the inheritance settlement promised him had never been paid. According to Deputy Asua the case was quashed when King Alfonso, Don Carlos de Bourbon and Fernando Marlo de Baviera presented documents disproving the entire story. In France the case dragged on & on. Should Deputy Asua's charges of last week stick, it may be possible for the Spanish government to demand Alfonso XIII's extradition on charges of forgery. True or false the affair revived not only...
...buck-toothed Carol was feeling virtuous-having lately become interested in two new mistresses, nobly banished red-haired Jewess Magda Lupescu with a settlement of $120,000, and placated his former wife Princess Helen by agreeing to let their son Prince Mihai, 11, go to an English school. Carol sternly ordered thorough investigation of the Skoda scandal. Last week a goat had been found in handsome, white-haired General Zika Popescu, Secretary-General of the Ministry of War and Commandant of the First Rumanian Army Corps. When Popescu got the summons to appear for questioning, he wrote out farewell letters...
...Land Banks lend farmers enough to pay up their back taxes and interest and make a new and better deal with their own mortgage holders. Such a scheme pivoted on the belief that mortgagees would gladly reduce principal and interest in return for either a cash settlement or a government-guaranteed security of less value...