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...Communist Party Congress- a great hive of angry bees which have been droning monotonously at Moscow-took drastic action, last week, and expelled from the party 98 extremely prominent Communists. In Russia, expulsion from the one and only party permitted to exist is a sentence of political death. No Russian not a Communist in good party standing, can hold public office. The 98 who were thus "politically executed," last week, suffered this penalty because they are supporters of two World-known Russian statesmen who have tried to lead an Opposition in the Communist party but were recently expelled from...
...John J. Pershing recently said: "No man was ever faced with a greater problem than our War Secretary in 1917. . . . He met the situation with great courage, with great intelligence. ... I think I may say that no Secretary of War in American history ever realized the relationship which should exist between the Secretary of War and the Commanding General so completely and understandingly. Orders were given in plain language when I set out and I think Mr. Baker will bear me out that those orders were never changed and never modified. I was given full confidence. ... I ever shall...
...There exist about 8,500 Ford dealers. Their profit on each Ford they sell is 20%. (Dealers in other cars get 24% profit.) For six months Ford dealers have been clearing their show rooms of Model T Fords and parts. A fortnight ago all were bare. Last week most continued bare, for the Ford Motor Co. had prepared only about 550 new cars for exhibition. However its production will approximate 1,000 cars a week by January. (The company operates only five days a week.) The aim is 8,000 cars a week. Dealers will deliver very few cars...
...houses, chain stores and department stores handle only 30% of the national business. However, in 1925, one-third of the manufacturing plants produced nine-tenths of the country's manufactured products and employed nearly nine-tenths of the wage-earners in industry. Significance: small businesses can and do exist by the side of big businesses...
Then, since another war must be avoided if we are to exist, how may the cataclysm be averted ? Senator Borah has said: "War must be declared a crime and be no longer recognized, in any way or at any time, as a legitimate method of settling international disputes." Author Kenworthy submits that if this attitude were officially and solemnly adopted by the most powerful nations "everything else would follow automatically...