The Week.

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  • Source:
    New Republic. 12/23/31, Vol. 69 Issue 890, p144-147. 4p.
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      Discusses several social and political developments around the world. Blame on U.S. President Herbert Hoover for the failure of Congress to ratify the moratorium agreement in time to prevent a default of the allied debt payments, since he sternly objected to an extra session of the Congress; Deliberation on the reasons behind the resignation of the cabinet of the Minseito party in Japan; Discussion of the suitability of German decision to slash interest rates, rents, prices and wages in an attempt to force deflation; View that the division of the Nobel Prize between U.S. social worker Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, symbolizes acceptance of two diagonally opposite types of service for peace; Discussion on the view of Jacob Billikopf, a noted Philadelphia social worker, that there has been an insignificant increase in relief funds of cities in the U.S. in the face of their rising relief expenditures; Discussion of the trial of William B. Jones, secretary of the miners' union in Harlan County in Kentucky, who has been convicted for taking part in the murder of four deputy sheriffs; Discussion of the resentment over excessive control by U.S. of Haiti, as reflected in a memorial of protest sent to President Herbert Hoover; Fact that the number of departing aliens has exceeded that of immigrants in the U.S.; Revelation that Gillette Safety Razor Company used to take consignment to its subsidiaries as sales, and show anticipated profit on this consignment as its profit in its financial statements; Situation of child labor in the U.S.; Discussion on a poll conducted by Yale news that has found that majority of undergraduates of Yale University, Connecticut, favor reduction of armament in the U.S.; Prospect of survival of the magazine "The Midland."