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...Grass." To Congress, whose heart and head have long been set against any further debt tinkering, the British and French communications were just so much waste paper which did not change a single vote. Any Congressional sympathy for Britain vanished at her threat of trade reprisals against the U. S. Declared an anonymous Treasury official: "Britain has said in effect, 'Relent or the grass will grow in your streets,' and Congress is saying 'Let's see the grass.' " Most Senators and Representatives felt that European debtor nations were ganging the U. S. taxpayer and Congress...
...sense a trend rather than its accomplishment, in which case the time is not far distant when undergraduate rooms will really be decked with pennants, when there will be three fair co-eds surrounding each freshman and when poisoning is the least that may be expected by triple-threat men on the eve of the gamefl --New York Herald-Tribune...
Heavy, heavy over the head of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. hangs the threat that Spain's Cortes (parliament) will declare the franchise for its big subsidiary. Compania Telefonica Nacional de Espana, null & void. The threat has hung over I. T. & T.'s head for eleven months, and last week Left-wing Deputies in the Cortes were shouting loudly for a vote on the bill, a hefty item in the pre-Revolution program against His Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII. The shouting Deputies claim the franchise was illegal, that it was obtained only after a thumping bribe was slipped...
...Congress will soon enact legislation to aid the farmer. The farmer won a wonderful victory in the election." Strikers. Closely associated with the National Farmers' Union is Milo Reno's Farmers Holiday Association which sponsored last summer's "farm strike" in Iowa. Striker Reno's threat: "The time has come for direct action. If Roosevelt makes a misstep we'll fight him just as hard as we fought Hoover. We'll come down harder than ever." Meanwhile a farmers' march to Washington for the opening of Congress was also in the making last...
That he "hijacked and blackmailed Harry Sinclair and his associates of $250,000 in 1924 on a threat that he would expose their Teapot Dome activities...