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...Boycott Threat. Comrade Bogdanov denied that Amtorg indulged in Communist propaganda or served as a money conduit between Moscow and Communism. Said...
...followers most wanted from the majority. Republican Leader Watson had in his desk a petition signed by 35 Senators to invoke cloture and thus kill the filibuster. But Senator Watson was too good a tactician to martyrize Senator Johnson and friends with this ex-treme parliamentary measure. The mere threat served him better...
...even hotter as wheat prices slumped to the lowest level in 17 years, 60¢ per bu. locally, 86¢ at Chicago. To escape a brassy sun harvesters worked by moonlight. By day, horses heaved and died by the score. The grain turned white, the ground cracked open. But the threat of a burned crop and reduced production was not sufficient to revive wilting prices...
...Macmillan Petroleum Corp., however, and not to Standard went the glory of having first taken a stand against the price cuts. With due regard to the Napoleonic maxim that the best defense is an attack, Macmillan Petroleum, one of the independents, met the price-cutting threat by actually raising its prices. "Commencing on the morning of July 4th," announced the company two weeks ago, "the price of Macmillan gasoline will be restored to 18½? at the service station. . . . We confidently expect the purchasers of Macmillan gasoline to continue purchasing our product even though the price may exceed that...
Marshal Yen Hsi-shan carried out his threat of last May to seize the customs revenues at Tientsin (port of Peking). He will continue to pay foreign holders of Chinese bonds their lion's share of the receipts, expects to pocket a nice surplus of $600,000 per month...