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...defunct Monroe Doctrine if, on the basis of the Good Neighbor Policy, a great neutral bloc could be created in the Americas, assuring mutual American economic, political and military self-sufficiency if Europe and Asia should be engulfed in war. Such a creation might well be a springboard to boost the U. S. President to a place of direct influence in world politics, through the medium of belligerent boycott. Such a hope may well have inspired Franklin Roosevelt's eagerness to dash to Buenos Aires at a time when there were plenty of problems waiting for him in Washington...
...this year the Freshmen have been doing a lot of work while most of the Varsity aspirants have yet to get down to steady practice. Bill Schmidt got a special boost from Neufeld, however, for the work that he's been doing so far, while most of the members of the cross country team should be in pretty good shape still...
...Since that date, however, nearly $450,000,000 worth of gold has been landed in the U. S., and excess reserves have mounted approximately the same amount. A continuation of gold imports at that rate for any length of time would boost excess reserves to such a figure that they would be beyond reach of the Reserve Board's present instruments of control...
Some employers, glad to conciliate labor, may not be wholly averse to such a change. In Chicago last week Mills Novelty Co., manufacturer of automatic vending and gambling machines, announced it would boost the pay of its 2,600 employes enough to compensate for the 1% pay-envelope tax. Said Fred H. Mills: "Following the tremendous vote of confidence given the President by the nation, we are sure that business is going to improve considerably. We believe that our company will be more able to bear the added burden of the tax on wages than our employes...
...counted. Several Republican victories and a majority of the close contests turned out, three or four days later, when every last ballot was counted, to be Democratic successes. Result was that the statisticians, having reported that Democrats had elected 26 out of 33 Governors, had two days later to boost their figure to 27 Democrats; having reported that there would be at least 315 Democrats in the House of Representatives, had to up this figure to 334 Democrats (against 89 Republicans, 7 Progressives, 5 Farmer-Laborites); having reported 73 Democrats in the Senate, had to revise up to 75 Democrats...