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Officials of RCA Communications contended that if the Commission withdrew its 113 point-to-point licenses, they would be gobbled up by foreign countries "like Russia and Mexico" and the U. S. would be virtually forced out of the international wireless field. Jeopardy to life at sea was depicted by Radiomarine officials if that company should lose its 1,122 ship-shore licenses because of its parent company's law violation. RCA-Victor declared it would have to cease television experimentation if the Commission ruled against it. Summing up for RCA, Louis Titus, chief attorney, declared an "unspeakable disaster" would...
...quit Chiang and gone to Chen is ominous. China is in slow ferment, with Russia helping the brew. So slow is the ferment that last week the American Congregational Mission got tired of waiting for a stable Chinese Government to emerge, ended a work of 50 years, withdrew all their missionaries from the province of Fukien. excepting Foochow, abandoned much property bought with U. S. dollars, abandoned their hospital at Shaowu...
...only seven votes. M. Briand by 48. The result, to a practiced parliamentary eye, was decisive-for a large block of centre National Assemblymen were known to have pledged themselves to vote on the second ballot for whomever received most votes on the first. M. Briand promptly withdrew his candidacy, and soon after left Versailles for Paris where, as he admitted, "feeling a little faint," he went early to bed. At Versailles the vote proceeded again from "L." Smart luncheons lengthened into weary dinners. At 8:30 p.m. Paul Doumer was elected 13th President of France by 504 votes...
...identical issue, lacking voting power, was around half of that. Last winter six law suits charging mismanagement were brought against Mr. Eaton and the directors of Continental Shares. This further weakened public confidence in its position. Facing these suits, facing a sharply falling market, Mr. Eaton last week dramatically withdrew from his official position as head of Continental Shares, invited the four most prominent Cleveland bankers (Wilbur M. Baldwin, Harris Creech, James Arthur House, C. E. Sullivan) to join the board of the beleaguered company...
Still intent on a grand slam, the curley-haired man of Pemberton Square struck from the tally the score of Lieutenant Governor Youngman. The Lieutenant-Governor withdrew from the game gracefully, merely acknowledging that he is not in the mayor's class. The mayor will therefore be able to drink his Japanese tea without a Kibitzer...