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This week the showdown came. Unable to bring all the Arab and Jewish delegates together during three weeks of the abortive Round-Table Conference, the British Government, rather than allow the deadlock to continue, threw its cards on the table. In an "unofficial recommendation" submitted by Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald to the Arab and Jewish delegations, the British Government proposed that they end their League of Nations mandate over Palestine and set up the Holy Land as an independent state, tied by treaty relations to Britain...
...Florida City there was a flurry of excitement just before the President shifted from train to motor car. A male figure in brown sweater and dark trousers was seen lurking by the road. Secret Service and police quickly threw a cordon around the President and beat the thick scrub for the lurker. He escaped, nothing happened. The President entered his car and rode 140 miles over the trestles built by the late Rail Tycoon Henry M. Flagler to lace the Florida Keys, converted by PWA from a defunct railroad into a $3,600,000 motor highway. At Key West, which...
Never quite recovered from reparations days, when France and Belgium pinched the best of its equipment, German State Railways was in critical condition when Germany annexed Austria and threw on its back the burden of the dilapidated Austrian Federal Railways. On some of the hopelessly debt-burdened Austrian lines wood-burners were still being used...
Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, threw down the gauntlet to the totalitarian states today in one of the most outspoken denunciations of the Fascist states yet made by anyone in high Faculty circles...
...large explosion and fire in an electric plant in London threw a section of the city into darkness...