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...move at the Capitol against all imports from countries with depreciated currencies. Pending before the House Ways & Means Committee was a bill which would automatically up tariff rates as foreign currencies decline. As a witness on this measure last week Republican Chairman O'Brien of the Tariff Commission split with his President and his party when he said: "Our imports today are at a very low ebb. We're not being flooded by imports. Our relations abroad are already bad enough. If you want an embargo, go ahead and pass this bill." That no last-gasp Republican tariff...
Rumors of the downfall of the Cabinet of General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, who wants to return to the gold standard as soon as possible, gave wild speculation another fillip. Both Judge Tielman Roos, who is trying to split the Hertzog Party, and Opposition Leader General Jan Christiaan Smuts, a personal friend of George V, were mentioned as the coming "Boom Premier...
...took the Rock Island job and thereby probably kept himself from becoming head of a great system long before this. Within nine months he had split with Rock Island's backers, but under his five-year contract he continued to draw his $75,000, largest in the U. S. He went to the Kansas City Southern, described at the time as "a right of way and two streaks of rust," and promptly put that firmly on its feet...
...quotations. If several firms seek quotations simultaneously, it is to the advantage of a broker to know his competitors' figures so that he can quote a slightly better figure, get the business Alexander J. Robertson of Ludwig, Robertson & Co. received the longest suspension-three years. He had also split commissions with customers (in effect a rebate) contrary to a long-standing Stock Exchange rule...
Divorced, Film Actor Maurice Chevalier; and Yvonne Vallee Chevalier; by a double divorce disallowing alimony to Mme Chevalier; in Paris. Onetime Parisian co-dancers, 1927 "lovebird" couple. they split on Chevalier's Hollywood-mania, Mme Chevalier's "extreme"' jealousy...