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...beyond the power of individual nations to adjust tariffs equitably. The balance of theoretical arguments for and against protection is lost from sight in the political necessity of satisfying applicants for protection. And revision upward is often as difficult as downward revision, because of its effect on private parties to the industrial community. If nations are still unable to levy theoretical tariffs within their borders, it is folly to expect a powerless international commission to recommend tariff revisions at all acceptable...
...world knows a certain horse-jawed, long-nosed, highbrowed countenance with deep cheek grooves beside the wide mouth; eyes hooded, alert and slanting slightly downward into a squint at the outside corners; the high, narrow cranium flanked by lean temples and longish ears. It is not an uncommon face in the U. S. but a single man brought its fame far above the fame of many another face-Woodrow Wilson. Today the type is perhaps best seen in onetime Editor Edward W. Bok of the Ladies' Home Journal, who last week bestowed $150,000 upon Princeton University...
...midst of the difficult economical problems with which Germany has been confronted throughout the past year, and which the Nationalists were powerless to cope with, there has now arisen a fairly general demand for a "strong man" whom it is hoped might be able to stop the downward movement, the increase in bankruptcies and unemployment...
...through the Pennsylvania mountains there are gorgeous views. But best of all is to fly it. Then you can soar above the farmlands, circle and behold the cities like great wens on the face of nature, swoop up and over the mountains, dallying if you like on the long downward slant to peer off east to the continent's end and the long Atlantic ground swell. Last week a boy of 14, Farnan Parker of Anderson, Ind., stepped into his plane and flew from his home to Philadelphia. He took his time, stopping twice en route, arriving...
...ardent Mystic Shriner, tossed a football from the 23rd floor of the San Francisco Telephone Co. Building. Then he tossed another- and another-and another. Meanwhile Brick Muller, famed Californian right end of the "All-Westerns," scampered about 320 feet below and finally caught Potentate McKevitt's fourth downward pass. Baseball fans recalled that the hard-centred spheroids employed in playing their favorite game have been successfully caught (by catcher Street of the Washington "Senators" and catcher Sullivan of the Chicago White Stockings and others) when dropped 555 feet from the top of Washington Monument...