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Still the Congress wrangled, all last week, over the relief bills to be enacted for drought-stricken farmers and the industrial unemployed. The House wanted to lend the farmers $30,000,000 for feed and seed; the Senate wanted to lend them $60,000,000.* The Senate insisted that the farmers be permitted to buy food for themselves as well as their livestock under the loan; the House thought this would be a dole. On the $116.000,000 unemployment-relief bill there was disagreement over: 1) Senator Robinson's amendment taking allotment of sums out of the President...
...Passed a bill to loan drought-stricken husbandmen $60,000,000 for feed and food; sent it to the House (see below...
...King Albert and Queen Elisabeth received dreadful tidings that men, women, animals (no children), were gasping, choking, dying in a fog which filled the valley of the River Meuse from Liege down through Namur. On the fourth day the fog lifted, on the fifth Queen Elisabeth motored through the stricken valley, where 67 human lives had been lost, was rousingly cheered. The Belgian Government officially announced that the deaths were due "solely to the cold fog," thus scotching rumors that War gases buried by the retreating German Armies had escaped. As on the three previous occasions when "poison" fogs have...
...interests of consistency, the "Princetonian" has just declined to run advertisements of the Hun School tutoring sessions for next week's Freshman Uniforms: We are not under the delusion that this action, which deprives our already poverty-stricken daily of sorely-needed shekels, will prevent the Hun School from acquainting its disciples, with the schedule of cramming hours; but we do believe that wholesale, last-minute tutoring exerts a vicious influence on the intellectual life of the University...
...oust the old Moon management. This was done. In the struggle, aided by tales of the cotton picker, Moon rose to $16? a share. But Ruxtons were never produced commercially and fewer Moons have been sold this year than last. Last week Moon stock, selling at 75 cents, was stricken from the New York Stock Exchange for failure to maintain a Manhattan transfer office. A total Moon eclipse was widely predicted. Last week an end came to New Era Motors with a voluntary petition in bank ruptcy. Assets were listed at $317,000; liabilities at $855,000. Strange seemed...