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...Ours is a force of defense, not offense. To maintain forces less than that strength is to destroy national safety; to maintain greater forces is not only economic injury to our people but a threat against our neighbors. . . . Our problem is ... to prevent extremists on one side from undermining the public will to support our necessary forces and to prevent extremists on the other side from waste of public funds...
...possible only in the presence of the iron carried by a specific enzyme, the chemistry of which he worked out. Said Dr. Warburg last week: "It was only recently that I found out how the difference had arisen. Wieland as a chemist worked on dead cell material. When you destroy living cells you get a juice in which combustible materials such as sugar are much more highly concentrated than in the living cell, and by virtue of that higher concentration respiration in that liquid can take place in the absence of iron. ... In the living cell such a high concentration...
...Borah-I would, yes. . . . I think the time is past for moratoriums. . . . We have reached the time when if we are going to relieve the economic situation we shall have to cut, instead of push [debt payments] back a year or two and destroy the credit of every nation against whom it stands. . . . I think we are economically affected by the situation in Europe, and I think we shall have to be interested...
Last week appeared another proposal which seemed to follow the maniacal destruction formula. "WOULD DECIMATE COWS," headlined the New York Sun. "Dairymen Urged to Destroy One in Every Ten." Alarmed city folk read on to learn the worst, found that the recommendations had been made to, not by, the Federal Farm Board, which nevertheless passed them on to the public...
...those polished but weary captains of metropolitan industry who is on the eve of eloping with a reluctant secretary just after making miserable the corporate existence of a vague South American Republic through the calculated failure of a rival bank. Naturally any number of unsuspected people are out to destroy the polite and powerful arch-criminal from the start of the piece, and this in itself is enough to furnish adequate excitement for three acts. The role in question is exceedingly well played by Mr. Francis Compton, possibly the least amateurish of the cast in this particular play. Fortunately, there...