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...time when our country is suffering from a severe dislocation of economic progress, people are naturally asking questions about the future. . . . Some new factor is needed in our economic life. . . . It is not enough to talk about being of good cheer. It is not enough to apply old remedies...
With Bachelor Brüning, Husband Curtius entered a sleeping car at Berlin. Both statesmen pulled down their blinds. Both went to sleep. Whenever the train halted on its way to Hamburg crowds gathered to cheer the German Delegation, but the blinds of Drs. Brüning & Curtius remained drawn. They gave no sign of life whatsoever en route...
...said to have long-wished for a third big bank in Chicago. Not included in the deal were six small banks connected with the Foreman system. Monday morning they promptly closed their doors until their status could be learned. Knowledge that the "trouble-spot" has been erased brought cheer to La Salle Street, also to Wall Street where stocks again rallied. But no rallier was Foreman stock which opened at $30 offered, nothing bid, against Saturday's $105, a recent price of $250. And Chicagoans were of the opinion that the historic Foreman family has passed forever...
...baseball team until his 98th year), was not due for retirement for three years. The trustees offered him the chancellorship of the university. In his autobiography he tells how, abruptly on Commencement Day, his new appointment was announced: "The audience . . . was plainly dazed. . . . Hoover now rose and proposed 'Three cheers for the chancellor!' But few understood why they should cheer at what seemed (to most, at least) a painful separation, and he got only a slight response...
...angry, bull-necked Argentine denounced the U. S. Tariff last week in words so strong that the U. S. State Department grew worried. Half a dozen other speakers at the National Foreign Trade Council convention in Manhattan last week sided with him. From his bountiful cornucopia of good cheer Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, poured reassuring Tariff figures with which to uphold the Hoover Administration. When the Council adjourned and drew up its annual, lengthy, vague resolution, the fighting word "tariff" did not appear...