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...chancelleries flew at once into a diplomatic furor. It was discovered that Benito Mussolini had also received a copy of the "observations" in Rome, but none had been handed to Ambassador Davis at Geneva or to French Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour. What was Germany trying to do-split the U. S.. British, French, Italian disarmament front...
...Retail Trades Code, was also alarmed. Retail price-fixing would make it more difficult for him to bring farm prices up to parity with manufactured goods. Though the Food Code went into hearings last week with a price-fixing clause-a 10% mark-up like the Retail Code but split 2?% to the wholesaler and 7?% to the retailer-few observers believed that it would get by Mr. Peek...
...before Glovemaker Collett of the Worshipful Company of glovers, a tycoon of British haberdashery. After congratulations all round, Stationer Lord Mayor Sir Percy Greenaway invited Glover Collett into the ornate Lord Mayor's coach, carried him off to a reception at the Mansion House while four trumpeters split the air with deafening blasts...
...Largest: The monstrous Cullinan, found in South Africa's Premier mine in 1907 by a worker who got $10,000 bonus. It was split up for King George's crown and sceptre...
...hand, attempted to dodge the issue by refusing to talk about it, and on the other, has deprecated the use of the striking right where it has been exercised. But now in the case of the coal codes, the miners in Pennsylvania and West Virginia have split away from the hush-hush guidance of John Lewis and have by militant action forced the question squarely before Washington. "Are unions going to be recognized...