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...government yesterday withdrew another PWA allotment of $240,000 which was to have been used in constructing a new and modern French market. Government officials said they wished to study the new laws more fully...
...borrow or steal the voting strength of a Progressive candidate named Raymond LeRoy Haight of Los Angeles. He polled 85,000 votes on the Republican ticket, has a clean record, is a sworn foe of corporate interests. Most of his votes would go to Merriam if he withdrew. But Progressive Haight, who is only 38, seemed quite willing to have Acting Governor Merriam defeated and put aside, on the theory that by 1938 the electorate's disgust with Sinclair will give Haight a real chance of election...
...last blow to the oil industry's faith in Federal regulation came last fortnight when Government prosecutors suddenly withdrew a test case which had been carried to the U. S. Supreme Court. The reason given was a '"technicality": the clause in every other copy of the Oil Code which made a violation of a State production quota a violation of the Code-the clause on which the whole case hinged - was found to be missing from the original text signed by the President. New oil legislation will probably be presented to the next Congress...
...defending yacht Defender had had ballast secretly and unfairly added at night, then that she had fouled Valkyrie at the start of the second race, and that the crowding of the spectator fleet endangered him. After crossing the line at the start of the third race, he withdrew unexpectedly and forfeited the series. After a celebrated "trial," in which Lord Dunraven failed to prove his charges, he was expelled from honorary membership in the New York Yacht Club for conduct unbecoming a gentleman and a lord...
Back from the Austrian frontier last week Benito Mussolini withdrew the 50,000 troops, the tanks and field guns that he sent to prevent an Austrian Nazi Putsch after the murder of Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 6). Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, Austrian Vice Chancellor, had just reported in Rome to Il Duce that Austria is now quiet. This week the new Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, is due in Italy to attend the annual war games as Premier Mussolini's guest. Last week the Italian troops which marched away from Austria did not march far. Most went back to their...