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...Dizzy Heights." With the deadlock thus total, both parties made irate statements. Sir Tej and Mr. Jayakar reported that the Gandhite leaders said to them in substance: "The Viceroy's words afford a further painful insight into government mentality. It is as plain as daylight that from the dizzy heights of Simla [Viceregal Summer Capital in the mountains] India's rulers are unable to understand and appreciate the difficulties of the starving millions living in the plains, whose incessant toil makes government from such a dizzy height at all possible...
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, who operates a dairy farm at his home in Lynchburg, Va., gave his reasons for selling 60 purebred milch cows: "I just can't afford to buy feed for the winter. If I did I would run behind about $25,000. With no hay available in Virginia and the prices so high due to the $5-a-ton tariff rate imposed by the last tariff bill, I'm forced to sell. I suppose that some of my cows will just go to the butcher shop...
...Lear Black, onetime clerk, raised himself through the grades of business and finance to the directorship of banks, shipping companies, insurance firms, was longest identified with Baltimore's Fidelity & Deposit Co. Known as the richest man in Maryland (he was insured for $750,000), he could easily afford to indulge his hobbies, chief among which was traveling by airplane. In his private planes, with two pilots whom he originally borrowed from Royal Dutch Air lines in 1927, he flew approximately 130,000 mi. in all parts of the world...
...Duce is astute enough to realize that Soviet Russia, more than four times as large as the rest of Europe, with a population of 154 millions, is a market no country can afford to ignore. Fascist Italy has granted official recognition of the Soviet. Last week while U. S. businessmen agitated for Soviet recognition (see p. 13) Isador Liubimov, Assistant Commissar of the Soviet Commissariat for Foreign Trade, was formally wined and dined in Rome, after which he and representatives of the Fascist government signed an agreement whereby Russia will buy $10,000,000 worth of Italian manufactured goods before...
Newsmen asked one another what had happened, could only guess at the answer. Perhaps some unlucky subeditor had blundered. Or perhaps the Star, unable to transform so many big snakes into other animals, decided in editorial conference that it could ill afford to drop out its ace comic, the Bungles, for even one Sunday. Or perhaps Publisher Longan suddenly and completely recovered from his snake-phobia...