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...This drilling, trampling foolery in the heart of Europe," said H. G. Wells of Hohenzollern Germany, and twenty years later he finds his echo in the columns of the London Graphic. Great Britain, according to the Graphic and the Referee, wants peace, and to that end will force an iron ultimatum upon the Nazis, but the Graphic somewhat unfortunately goes on to say that Great Britain will build a hundred airships in any case. Daladier rumbles out even stronger threats; Switzerland insists that the German offensive will cross her soil, and only from Doorn and from the perspiring Nazi emissary...
While the grain pits were still ringing with the tale of a trapped bull, they were startled by an echo from the past-the sound of a bear trapped five years ago and still clawing at the trap. In Chicago's U. S. District Court, President Edward Wellington Backus of Backus-Brooks Co. (lumber) of Minneapolis filed suit against President Gustavus Franklin Swift of Swift & Co.. Allen F. Moore (onetime Republican Congressman from Illinois), Herbert J. Blum (oldtime grain operator). His charge: that in 1928 he sold short 950,000 bushels of July corn, that they and others...
...were reprimanded the Freudian "censor" (which ordinarily keeps the unconscious buried) was likely to be off guard, that boys then resented scoldings more from fathers than from mothers, that the converse was true of girls. The Oedipus Complex, thought Dr. Stagner, was clearly entitled to a thoroughgoing reappraisal. The echo of Freudian concepts matched the echo of marital concepts preached by neglected Benjamin Barr Lindsey, one-time Judge of Denver's Juvenile Court. Long has peppery, little Judge Lindsey trooped up & down the country with a marital Utopia under his arm and at the end of his tongue, wrangling...
...readers of Without Music should be expected to echo the comment of Robert Benchley in his introduction: ". . . It makes me feel better about having laughed so loud at Dwight Fiske in night clubs. I always have had a suspicion that I was drunk. Now I know that I was merely appreciative...
President Roosevelt's decision to abandon gold as the basis of U. S. currency had its roots in developments weeks, months, years ago. The echo of the 1929 stock crash had hardly died away be fore the political cry for more and cheaper money took its place. This cry increased as the value of the dollar climbed higher and higher against the value of goods. President Hoover bucked the demand for currency inflation by attempts at credit inflation, most of them unsuccessful...