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...Reporters, calling at the White House for the usual press conference, put the question to the President whether there was any significance in the sudden departure of Attorney General Sargent for Vermont-was he about to resign? The Presidential eye twinkled. The President took pleasure in assuring the reporters that Mr. Sargent had again become a grandfather...
...Italy especially mind) supplements Article II in defining the circumstances in which action shall be taken against a treaty-violating power. Heavy emphasis is laid upon the principle that advisement shall first be taken if possible with the Council of the League. But in the event of a sudden "flagrant" hostile act, such as a rush by Germany or France upon the Rhineland, each guaranteeing power "undertakes immediately to come to the help of the party against whom such a violation or breach has been directed as soon as the said power has been able to satisfy itself that this...
...that Bishop Murray would be chosen their leader, but all knew the story of his devotion to the Church National, Universal. So after 14 ballots, during which Bishop Brent of Western New York and Bishop Gailor of Tennessee unsuccessfully divided most of the votes between them, there came a sudden rush of enthusiasm for the onetime bookkeeper of Salem, Ala. He became unanimously "Primus"? an office in a small degree comparable to that of Archbishop of Canterbury. .Elected, he bowed his head in prayer for a long period. Interviewed, he said: "... a man feels, a sense of insufficiency...
...excuse given by the Government estimators for the sudden recent jump in their cotton figures, is "the September rains, which have sensationally improved prospects in regions of the cotton belt harassed by drought, especially in Texas." Indeed, private estimates of the coming crop have experienced similar (though lesser) increases for the same reason. But on the announcement of the last Government estimate, cotton prices on the New York Cotton Exchange broke $8 a bale to the lowest figures this year, and cotton traders are just now inclined to speak of Government estimators and statisticians in terms completely uncomplimentary...
...since 1908 Ford kept his famous Model "T" unchanged, and at a cost far below other makers. Since the war, about 48% of cars sold in this country have been Fords. But during the past year, Fords constituted only 42% of cars sold. This accounts for Ford's sudden effort to make his famous vehicle a thing of beauty...