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...plunge into Manchuria (TIME, Sept. 28). His successor, the Seiyukai's "Old Fox,'" pandered eagerly to the Army & Navy, but the costly setback at Shanghai forced the Foreign Office to negotiate what the fighting services were bound to consider a "disgraceful withdrawal" (TIME, May 16). This, though not the fault of the "Old Fox," led him straight into a trap of Japanese swashbuckling hysteria which cost him his life last week...
...most outstanding fault in the post-war reconstruction of Europe was the total sidestepping of economic considerations, and undue emphasis laid on what is proving to be the less important political and national aspect of the situation. As long as prosperity lasted, however, the United States and Great Britain were able to make loans to Germany and Austria to meet their War obligations, and to the countries in the Danube valley to carry on a rejuvenation of their shattered economic systems. No need for an alteration of existing political arrangements made itself apparent until prosperity ended...
Though he has Fordized footwear and cut shoe prices lower than anyone else, Herr Bat'a wrote that he has not been able to cut them low enough to keep all his shoe factories busy. "That is my fault," he accused himself, "but all men make mistakes." To employes whom he has discharged or may discharge Thomas Bat'a promised a private Bat'a dole, warned that this aid will be instantly canceled the moment a recipient is found to be accepting State...
...Dwiggins had no fault to find with the U. S. fiscal system. It was only what the money looked like that enraged him. William Addison Dwiggins is a name highly honored by printers and publishers. Born in Chicago 48 years ago he went to Boston at the age of 21 and set up as a commercial artist. Fascinated by typography, he worked in Boston under the greatest type designer the U. S. has produced, Frederic William Goudy, and under one of the two greatest printers: Daniel Berkeley Updike of the Merrymount Press. (The other: Free Lance Bruce Rogers.) Typographer Dwiggins...
...outstanding 'use-fault' of the design is its failure to declare the amount in plain characters...