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...settle down for a long slege of bewilderment. And then, after the hero and the heroine have been chasing about the hospital for an hour or so, to no observable purpose, they calmly explain the whole thing to the inspector. A very harmless-looking interne for whom we had formed quite a liking, turns out to be the dastard, proving conclusively that you just can't trust anybody...
After he had told all this, Mr. Morgenthau tried to explain about the Government's credit: "The thing I am trying to say is this: Since Monday a week ago I do not think anybody in the United States can say what the picture is going to be. So many things have happened that affect the Treasury that I certainly am not smart enough, and I haven't met anybody that is smart enough, who can say what is the future of the Government bond market. Now this whole question of Government credit is such a delicate thing...
Messrs. Schwab & Grace went on to explain that, thanks to New Deal tax measures, holding companies were now something of a liability. Reasons...
According to Pearl Buck, the Chinese are akin to Americans, the Japanese to the English. This theory might explain why the U. S. has never taken the Japanese seriously, likes to regard them as a comic-opera race. It might also partly account for the delicate sympathy of The Wooden Pillow, whose author is an Englishman. But even the most arrant xenophobe could find little to feed his fears on and much to touch his Western conscience in Carl Fallas' gossamer tale. Japanese travel bureaus would be shrewd to boost The Wooden Pillows sales. Cynics may suspect that...
...season had gathered to hear a singer whose name had already spread the length & breadth of Europe. Some wondered why the curtain went up showing her so carefully posed in the crook of a grand piano. Not until she had sung four songs did she trouble to explain that her foot was in a cast, that she had injured it aboard ship, that she appeared that way "to make it pleasanter for your eyes...