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...stuffy League Assembly, hothouse of Europe's statesmen in more senses than one, sprouted suddenly last week a solemn Jack-in-the-Pulpit...
Tariff Warning. With a mien more solemn than even "Uncle Arthur's?," famed William Graham, President of the British Board of Trade and as such a member of the MacDonald cabinet, addressed the assembly pessimistically last week on "the general world depression and fall of commodity prices...
...cast. True, both the Democrats and the Republicans meeting in solemn conclave in various states have rigidly avoided a definite stand in their party planks with a persistence that is nothing more nor less than praiseworthy. The repeal of Prohibition will be successful only at the polls. The parties exist for another purpose, difficult though it may be to ascertain that purpose. Twenty-nine new supporters have found their way into the sacred halls of justice down Washington way. According to the prognostications of local experts the wet candidate in Massachusetts should attain a comfortable majority in November...
...among the care-free Greenlanders the atmosphere had a pleasant languor which seems to be rather lacking in Cambridge this fall. Of course, the Square, since the Vagabond's day has always been something of a cross betwen a boiler-works and a bedlam, but the solemn quiet of the Yard seems to have been rather unceremoniously encroached upon. Way up in the North one can't expect to be up on all of the latest developments, so it was with considerable surprise, and just a tinge of regret, that the Vagabond observed the new building operations on the Yard...
...Paris last week gathered motormakers from all parts of Europe. Great secrecy shrouded their conclave, solemn pledges of silence were taken. But the purpose of the meeting was neither unknown nor new. For several years European manufacturers have considered limiting Europe's imports of U. S. cars but have never been able to agree on the means. Never has there been the necessary government support for the movement until the new, higher U. S. Tariff evoked talk of reprisals throughout Europe, direct reprisals in Italy and France. Last week's meeting found the European motor men nearer agreed...