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Whether a glorious gesture or a death-blow, the Nationalist movement in India stimulates no definite answer from the falling Labor Government. So far, England also seems to take the affair with a grain of salt...
Instant results: The whole list of stocks on the Berlin Borse went off an average of six points, shares of the Reichsbank itself tumbled 15 points. Strongest industrials could not resist the blow. Salz-detfurth Potash lost 13 points, and the gigantic firm of Siemens & Halske (comparable in Germany to U. S. General Electric) was knocked for a loss of twelve. If the Director of the Reichsbank did not sell short before he handed his resignation to President Paul von Hindenburg, he resisted titanic temptation, proved himself indeed an "Iron...
...Psiakrew! Hound's Blood!" he swore, "stand where you are before I blow off your heads...
...dissatisfaction with the secret work of the National Law Enforcement Commission and its recommendations. Some Dry Senators felt that President Hoover was afraid to reveal the true inwardness of Prohibition. Senators Norris, Borah and Brookhart each claimed to possess a mass of evidence which, they said, would "blow the lid off" Dry enforcement. Their honest purpose was to lay bare its evils and attempt to correct them...
...years must develop either a profound cynicism or an even deeper mental anaethesia. As for the eleven wives, a consideration of the suffering usually resultant from one provides a deterrent. Although monotony in professional life doubtless requires the variety in the domestic side, both evils strike a severe blow at the teetotaler instead of aiding his cause. For youth just starting out in life Prohibition thus presents another serious problem. One hundred and fifty-six years of life and eleven wives threaten those who obey the law. However, these are the formative years; youth still has a chance...