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...turned over uneasily and pretended to be asleep. Great Britain, whose debt made up more than a third of the whole, was the first to awake. She gave bonds covering her debt, arranged its payment over a period of 60 years and began to pay. Four smaller debtors followed suit: Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Hungary. The others were slower...
...time being, however, the Government has the advantage. The Government suit to recover Teapot Dome from Harry F. Sinclair's companies is now waiting decision. In the Teapot Dome case, the evidence of fraud was far less impressive-in fact, very fragmentary because so many witnesses were out of the country. But, if the Cheyenne judge follows the same reasoning as the Los Angeles judge, he will void the Teapot Dome lease-on the ground that President Harding had no authority to give Secretary Fall control of the Naval oil reserves...
Last week, he ordered two of his large estates to be divided and distributed among his tenants on a deferred payment plan. He hoped that other grandees would follow suit. His tenants prepared to hold a series of festivals in his honor...
...Olzewska, forthwith ousted for "unseemly behavior," brought suit against the management. Meanwhile the public reacted in her favor...
...characters seem the metaphorical figures of the essay rather than the working, laughing children of life. His hero is an indecisive creature who turns radical in politics, finds that radicalism has caused his wife to commit suicide, finally follows suit. Rebecca West is the woman he loves, the woman who has sowed in his wife's mind the seeds of her decision to die. Rebecca jumps into the mill-race with the hero...