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...Japanese squeeze play was definitely on. For the first time it embraced the U. S. as well as Britain and France. For a complex of reasons, Japan had been treating the U. S. with gingerly respect. The Japanese went on the theory that their No. 1 customer was always right; that the U. S. fleet, though comparatively impotent west of Hawaii, could nevertheless do severe damage to the Imperial Fleet; that a country which prevented Japanese from immigrating must somehow be superior. Last week's abandonment of reverence for the U. S., and the intensification of the pressure...
Special provisions for cases of exceptional hardship merely added to the confusion. Most of the litigation centred around the complex problem of evaluating "invested capital." Carter Glass, McAdoo's successor, summarized the tax when he recommended its repeal in 1919: "It encourages wasteful expenditure, puts a premium on overcapitalization and a penalty on brains, energy and enterprise, discourages new ventures and confirms old ventures in their monopolies...
...victory converged at a single point. That point was Franklin Roosevelt. To Cartoonist Harry Bressler of the New Haven Journal-Courier, it was simple: he pictured a triumphant, rearing-back Roosevelt looming over the delegates like one of mountain-spoiling Sculptor Gutzon Borglum's gigantic stone visages. More complex was the realization that more than any other candidate Wendell Willkie stood as a symbol of opposition to the New Deal -not to its ideas, to which he subscribed far more than many a Republican present, but as a businessman who had best summed up business' case against...
Many a soldier stays publicly mum because he believes laymen too stupid to comprehend the complex art of war. Many a layman believes that soldiers hang on to strategic traditions as a fan dancer does her fan, talk little because they think little and have little...
...Robert Neumann (Mammon, The Queen's Doctor, Zaharoff) has few competitors in recent fiction. Like Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and Richard Wright's Native Son, it was written with passion called forth by human wrong. But in Neumann's case that wrong is more complex, less local, more profound: it is the story of the Jews of Europe, of whom Vienna-born Neumann is one. By the Waters of Babylon is perhaps his masterpiece, perhaps theirs...