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...shortage of those eminently bourgeois institutions, savings banks, seemed particularly to bother Commissar Zverev. who deplored that "430 districts of the Union are completely deprived of savings institutions." He promised to open this year 5,700 new savings banks. Finally he gave a sweeping pledge to "rationalize" the now almost infinitely complex taxation system of the Soviet Union, announced some progress already made: "We have rationalized in the food industry where, instead of 608 tax rates, we have introduced but 167. We are also revising the taxation system in the wool, cotton and silk industries. But this is not enough...
...bother to aim your guns because it won't do any good; just blaze away" was the order given to British soldiers during the Revolutionary War, asserted Charles T. Haven in the Upper Common Room of the Union last night...
...When a young Swiss neurologist from the University of Berne tried to trick him into making mistakes, he growled: "I answer no doubters. Bother the asses...
...also do not like to be dictated to, again asked for the closing of the British consulate in Leningrad. "Under protest" Britain acceded, thereby shutting off the only source of British visas for all except diplomats, who can get them from the British Embassy in Moscow. This did not bother the Soviet Government which is quite ready to make a diplomat out of any citizen it cares to send abroad...
Indifference was Rogers altitude, though. "It didn't bother me at all," be said. "I just sat down to a good night's study...