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...into such a war whether she liked it or not. Even so, few Belgian observers saw much likelihood of M. Vandervelde's proposal succeeding last week. To the average Belgian a war with Italy is a hypothesis for the newspapers, a war with Germany is a continuous personal threat...
...artificially high U. S. price created a new threat-namely, nullification of the 42? wheat tariff. If the world price dropped another 10? to 15? per bu. money could be quickly made by shipping wheat to the U. S. and selling it to the Farm Board. Chairman Legge wrote to Senator Capper thus...
...British House of Lords by threatening to create enough new Liberal Peers to override Conservative opposition, he (Mr. Lang) would appoint enough new Councilors not only to guarantee passage of his laws but, worse, to pass a special law abolishing the council itself without a popular referendum. Final threat to horrify Conservative New South Welshmen, Premier Lang announced that the new Councilors would be 60 of his "women friends." Political opponents, defenders of the Legislative Council, rushed to the courts with demands for a permanent injunction...
...boiled Congressman Snell demanded the appointment of Keyes Winter, wheelhorse politician, as the Tuttle successor. The President's friends like Congresswoman Pratt and William Hill wanted Alan Fox, good 1928 Hooverizer, to get the job. Last week Mr. Snell brought into the Old Guard's insistence a threat of legislative warfare against the White House. "And it's the chairman of the Rules Committee talking." said he. The affair hung fire...
...been created; state legislators were listed as proctors and night watchmen, one was "honorary captain of grass-cutters." Results of the shake-up were soon apparent : U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde objected to a Bilbo appointee at Mississippi Agricultural & Mechanical College, one Lee Denson, threat to withdraw Federal aid ($340,000 Governor Bilbo gave in, re Mr. Denson with L. A. Olsen, agree to Secretary Hyde. The American Medical Association served notice that unless members of the University's faculty of medicine were re it would use its influence to pre vent Mississippi graduates from practicing...