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...Tycoons & Junkers. When worried President von Hindenburg let "Safeguard Minister" Dr. Hugenberg go last week he withdrew support from Germany's most pampered class-his closest friends and neighbors, the East Prussian Junkers (landed proprietors). The Junkers, sunk as a class in debt, have clung to their lands for years through special Government grants of credit and decrees to block foreclosure. Chancellor Hitler appointed as Minister of Agriculture a Nazi famed as "The Friend of the Small Farmer," Herr Walter Darré. As every Junker knows Herr Darré regards their class as a feudal excrescence on new Germany...
...Lomas, Cordelia's rapscallion brother, had been courting her for years, and though Catherine despised him she finally gave in, to discover too late that she had made the mistake of her life. To save Carr's name from being dragged in the mud by Lomas, Catherine withdrew her capital from the firm, left Yorkshire forever with her ill-meaning husband. Carr saved what he could from the firm's wreck, but from then on it was hard scratching all the way. Other disasters came: His only daughter died of pneumonia; one of his sons was killed...
...Fiscal experts of the U. S. delegation ventured a plan for temporary stabilization of the dollar, withdrew it; and the Press reported that. C. U. S. Delegate Morrison had never heard of famed Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Benes; and the Press reported that...
Though Dr. Dewing did not concern them, Federal sleuths were still scurrying around last week, trying to find $600,000,000 worth of gold, asking the list of holders: "What did you do with the gold you withdrew...
...south the Canton Government called home the 19th Route Army from its trek north to take over the war against Japan. At the same time Cantonese General Chen Chi-tang accepted a long-standing order from Chiang Kai-shek to suppress bandits in five southeastern provinces. Canton also withdrew its support of ''Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, strutting in Chahar Province. And last week 47 Chinese Generals signed a circular telegram supporting the truce and repudiating General Feng...