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...bases of valuation, foreign and U. S. By and large the new bill retains foreign valuation, i. e., the value the foreign producer sets upon his article, or the price for which he sells it in his own country. But cunningly woven into Administrative language is a new threat against foreign producers who undervalue their imports to cheat the U. S. tariff. If the U. S. appraiser is not satisfied with the foreign valuation placed on an article for import, he may apply U. S. valuation, i. e., the value of similar articles produced and sold...
...Paris. "You join our party or we will get your two children on May Day!" This threat, whispered by Communists over and over to simple Thomas Testa, Parisian factory worker, so preyed on his mind that last week, mad with fear he rushed into the Metro (subway), dashed through the ticket puncher's wicket, flung himself off the platform before an oncoming train. The cars only took off one of his legs...
...reintroducing old American sporting customs, a ride to hounds, a balloon ascension, and a drag-chase to Boston Common are the promised triple threat of the Lampoon members for this afternoon, it was stated last night...
Lincoln Fogarty adds to Brown's strength by his phenomenal ability in the javelin throw. He has a decided advantage over T. G. Moore '29, the foremost Crimson thrower. Carney, the leading Bruin threat in the broad jump, has been doing 23 feet lately...
...least. "The newspaper speaks to me," he stormed, "as if it were a government of equal power!" His reply was to expel the Tribune's correspondent, George Seldes,* thus preventing potent, four-fisted, he-publishers Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson from executing their threat. In due time the "World's Greatest Newspaper" calmed down and sent other representatives to Moscow who have submitted tamely to the Red censorship for several years. Last week, however, the dander of Chicago's McCormick was again...