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...Franconia, Mauretania and what there is of No. 534. White Star will contribute its fleet of ten "ic" ships, including Majestic, Olympic, Homeric, Georgic and Britannic. In return Cunard will get 62% of the new stock and six directorships, White Star 38% and four directors. The Chancellor's soft voice was heard in the clause: "It is regarded by all parties hereto as a cardinal principle of the merger company that it is to be and remain under British control...
...Approved a proposal that a study be made of establishing more industrial (vertical) unions, like U. M. W., within the A. F. of L. The A. F. of L., based on a craft (horizontal) union system, soft-pedaled this vital labor issue at its last convention (TIME...
...Japan Army and Navy men talked (and often wrote) of almost nothing else but the "Inevitability of a Russo-Japanese War." Their militant chatter reached such a pitch last week that War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi was moved to step in and soft-pedal it. In his first interview since his elevation to the Cabinet as successor to the sword-rattling Araki, General Hayashi kept a straight face while he told the Associated Press...
...back to lay neatly against the wind and there will be no buttons on the cuffs - no outside plumb ing. . . ." But the very latest in fashions was the cocktail suit and the champagne coat. The cocktail suit, worn only between 4:30 and 6 of an afternoon, has a soft roll lapel in grey, blue-grey, blue or brown, with trousers of worsted in similar colors. Only a derby may be worn with it, in blue, grey or brown. But, warns the committee, "Al Smith's turn on the New Deal . . . has made the brown derby very unpopular...
...addition, the ring sold narcotics, provided monied prisoners with clothing filched from newcomers, even had a strong voice in the granting of paroles. Divided between an Irish and an Italian gang, the hierarchy lived soft in two hospital wards, while men who should have been hospitalized-100 drug addicts, more than 100 venereal cases, 13 insane patients and one man suffering with sleeping sickness-roamed at large through the prison spreading demoralization and infection...