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...sooner had Congress passed his emergency banking bill last week than President Roosevelt executed his second bold stroke in two days by asking it to enact such breath-taking proposals. His demand in a special message for "courageous, frank and prompt action" was predicated upon the necessity for balancing a budget more than $1,000,000,000 out of plumb. His economy reforms were designed to save at least half that sum. The measure giving him dictatorial power over veterans' expenditures and Federal salaries was entitled: "A Bill to Maintain the Credit of the United States...
...Neoptolemus comes with Odysseus, who had been the cause of the abandonment of Philoctetes, to carry back to Troy the wounded hero and his bow. In the two figures of Neoptolemus and Odysseus are personified not only the antagonism between Aeolian and Ionian, not only the reciprocal blindness of bold youth and cautious middle-age, but the eternal conflict between idealism and opportunism...
...Netherlands India, thence to Her Majesty's Government 9,000 miles distant at The Hague. Evidently scared, the mutineers asked no more than amnesty, with the implied threat that if this were not granted they might do mischief to the eight Dutch junior officers in their power. Bold as a lion at The Hague, fiery Dutch Defense Minister Deckers held out for unconditional surrender...
...recommendation: that because free education-for-all has failed completely and miserably, the "bogus experts" be thrown out and the pedagogues be restored to their proper function of teaching only the elements, only the three R's. Can it be done? Says H. L. M.: "Any publicist bold enough to flout them would be posted instantly as an agent of the Pope, if not, indeed, of Beelzebub. . . . The remedy, I suspect, is in the hands of God alone. . . . I begin to see significant signs. ... In dozens of American communities, large and small, they [gogues] are now being paid...
...southeastern Pennsylvania, about 15 miles west of Philadelphia, is Newtown Square. On a farm near there dwells a woman who last week felt moved to address the world. Settling her bulky frame at a desk she penned some thousand words, made a dozen typewritten copies, signed each in a bold hand: ALEXANDRE L. TOLSTOY, mailed them to various newspapers and the League of Nations. Then she felt "happier than in a long time...