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...conduct negotiations? Would the debtors default if refused another moratorium? Would such a default set back world recovery? Would a world conference on debts and tariffs, such as Governor Roosevelt had suggested, produce a solution? Would it really be better business for the U. S. to revise War Debts downward? What about the U. S. taxpayer who would have to make up the amount of the revision? Could the debts be successfully used to bargain for better trade opportunities and arms cuts? If the U. S. insisted on full payment of political debts, would U. S. private debts abroad...
...grave. Manhattan critics, as they shuffle up the aisle after a performance, have a terse way of signifying to each other their individual opinions of a play. An upward gesture of the head and a horizontal movement of the hand mean "It's in." If the hand swoops downward and the head wryly wobbles from side to side. "It's terrible." Following the curtain of The Perfect Marriage, hands swooped...
...campaign promises can be taken to have any save an opportunist meaning, the Democratic victory of November 8 should presage a downward revision of tariff rates. With such a possibility in mind, Dr. Benjamin Anderson has stated in the latest issue of the Chase Economic Bulletin that "the great international conference for the reduction of tariffs which the new administration is expected to call is going to work a radical change in this whole American picture, and the whole world picture." An equitable balance of trade has always been the basis of satisfactory commercial relations, and, according to Dr. Anderson...
...Mudguards are now made in a detachable form and can be removed in good weather as easily as taking off one's collar and tie. Handlebars are now all made with a downward curve, since it has been found that this adds to comfort as well as to speed in pedaling...
...uninvited guest had mingled with that company, first amusing them with witticisms but finally enacting a Poe-like "Masque of the Red Death," there would have been havoc throughout the land. Boards of directors would have rushed to urgent, solemn meetings. The stockmarket would have roared downward. Life insurance companies would have faced an emergency. For the guests at Lynnewood Hall last week included not just a dozen or so millionaires but at least 100 of the country's richest men. Among those who broke bread with the Master of the Hall that night were Harvey Samuel Firestone, Frank...