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Other recommendation: place the merchant marine under a single responsible head and urge the people to ship in U. S. bottoms; develop the Philippines, economically and do not give them independence until they are better fitted; discharge War debt obligations rapidly; avoid competitive armaments; create a board to deal with radio problems; enact immediately supplementary legislation to enforce Prohibition...
...middle west, New England and the south ought to be heartened by this glowing description of national health. Farmers may have had doubts concerning their ability to avoid bankruptcy, bankers may have hastily condemned the Federal Reserve System, or anything which might be responsible for the present financial disasters, and manufacturers may have looked askance at trade: but now everything is settled the doctor has declared the patient to be in the best of form and therefore there can be no possible excuse for lamentations. But Mr. Hoover should travel west, north and south. He might see more than...
...From my own experience, I should advise every foreigner to avoid Italy unless necessity takes him there. . . . The attitude toward all foreigners at present is hostile and arrogant. Toward France it is not quite sane. . . . One must see the mobs rushing through the streets shouting: 'Down with France!' to understand the hysteria of feeling...
...respect to the verse the choice is exceptionally fine. A conscious effort was made to avoid all controversial or purely doctrinal hymns with the result that we have a hymnal trully interdenominational, containing most of the great and noble hymns of all our various churches."--Auburn Saminary Record. Responsive Readings included...
...opponents of the rebate plan maintain that the Republicans are trying to avoid tax reduction at present in order to make a national issue out of it in 1928. They claim that a tax rebate is not practicable and not sufficient when the government can reduce the whole income tax ratio...