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...vigor in dealing with the Ruhr situation. And behind this opinion of the ex-premier stands the opinion of Washington as expressed by Secretary Hughes and President Coolidge. As Lloyd-George says: "the plan is not too late for consideration, and it is absolutely the best hope of the settlement of reparations...
...convention adopted resolutions against government price-fixing, radicalism, government regulation of business, reduction of railroad rates and valuations, the late settlement of the coal strike, and resolutions for lower surtax rates, reduction of the wages of labor and a settlement of the reparations problem through negotiation by the Debt Funding Commission with England and France...
...this lightly sarcastic communication may be characterized as a bit hasty. The settlement effected by Governor Pinchot was admittedly a necessary expedient. Inactive mines were being flooded; stores of winter coal were disappearing in early autumn; unemployed miners and their families were starving. Upon one side was the consumer who said he could pay no more, upon the other the miner who could accept no less. From this mess the Governor of Pennsylvania produced a compromise settlement, and cars of coal were once again seen on out-bound tracks...
...Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania took a fortnight's vacation at Milford, Pa., during which he observed the nation's reaction to his settlement of the coal strike. Unfortunately for Mr. Pinchot's Presidential aspirations, he comes from what is regarded as a solid Republican state. Pennsylvania is expected to vote Republican whether or not one of her sons leads the ticket. " So," say politicians, "why pick a Pennsylvanian ? " But the prospects of Mr. Pinchot's securing even the Pennsylvania delegation are not too bright. Mr. Pinchot is a reformer and an outsider to the great...
...willing to accept the Italian proposals. He is, however, in a different position from Signor Mussolini. The Italian Premier enjoys almost universal popularity in Italy, but the Yugo-Slavian Government is in a shaky position, owing chiefly to the hostility of the Croats. Thus the chances of an immediate settlement are considered somewhat tenuous...