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...Nanking, the Government announced "thrift and austerity" decrees to save dwindling foreign exchange and increase efficiency. The Government payroll (on which, a Cabinet spokesman estimated, some 18 million Chinese, including Army and students, now depend) would be reduced immediately. Food, cloth, gasoline and newsprint would come under new rationing and conservation restrictions. The number of official banquets would be reduced, and official meetings would start on time...
...that there would be an end and that the end would be pretty rough, to put it mildly. For the New Testament, this world, societies, and indeed life itself, are but a temporary experience. Moreover, the success of the Christian Church and the validity of its faith does not depend and never has depended on its ability to save societies or prevent physical death. The Church did not save Roman Society, but it saved Romans who were in a doomed society; the Church did not save Feudal Society, but it saved men and women who were in Feudal Society. There...
...morale of its readers is low. They have been fed on too constant a diet of superlatives and excitements. . . . From public slogans and party platforms, shrill editorials and spiced-up news, to the insistent din and pretense of advertising, the reader . . . comes to believe that the careers of newsmen depend on the illicit transformation of narrative into melodrama. . . . He imagines propaganda both where it is and where...
...Plympton Street swing open at 7:30 tonight, the CRIMSON Business Board will welcome as candidates any second term Freshmen, Sophomores, and especially qualified first term Juniors. The Business Board forms the financial backbone of the paper: therefore, the activities of the other boards of the paper depend in great measure upon the quantity of revenues...
...sent a four-man team to Poland. He conceded that the bank's charter forbids political considerations in making loans. But Soviet-dominated Poland's politics are bound to affect the bank's decision on whether she can repay a loan. Moreover, since the bank will depend almost entirely on American investors for its new capital, it will have to persuade them of the soundness of its risks. At best, the bank in the next twelve months can provide no more than $1 billion for world reconstruction...