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...Debated the tax bill (see p. 10). ¶ Received from Utah's King a resolution to suspend the pay of Second Assistant Postmaster General Glover who fortnight ago ordered Missouri postmasters to "get out on the firing line" for the Hoover ticket (TIME...
Nepotism, Nerves. The House next declined to suspend Saturday half-holidays for Government workers (savings lost: $9,000,000), to abolish the Army & Navy transport service (savings lost: $2,000,000), to withdraw Federal aid from State vocational training schools (savings lost: $8,500,000). When a political idealist named Mouser from Ohio proposed that Congressmen strike their idle relatives from the clerk hire payroll, he was howled down (8840-40) by a membership addicted to nepotism. So excited became the sessions that members loudly complained of "ragged nerves," begged for a recess...
...Olympiad, in Los Angeles, July 30 to Aug. 14. Olympic officials in the U. S. last week reiterated their intention of choosing the U. S. teams by trial competitions rather than, as was suggested, on their records in recent events. In Berlin, the International Amateur Athletic Federation voted to suspend famed Paavo Nurmi, pending an investigation of charges that he had become a professional...
...nation to probe thereafter, or as an excuse for action that would otherwise be without justification. One of the worst international evils is the existence of indefinite claims that can be used on convenient occasions. Our government will not go to war, and unless under great provocation will not suspend commercial intercourse, as Japan knows full well; but while using whatever pacific pressure it can to obtain a fair settlement, it must ultimately recognize the situation that develops; and, if so, is it not wise to make clear that we do not claim an interpretation of the Pact that...
...trying to raise the $500,000 necessary to insure another season of opera when suddenly a sterner blow struck them. Opera in Chicago has often been in a precarious way financially. But last week it was the Symphony which sent out an unexpected distress call, announced that it would suspend concerts next year unless a sufficient guarantee could be raised in advance...