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...with the next chairman of the Finance Committee. Few of them really had anything to fear from him. On taxation he opposes a Federal sales tax (though his own Mississippi has a State one), is inclined to go to the income-tax-paying class for more revenue. A vociferous foe of Republican protection, he is a red-hot supporter of President-elect Roosevelt's reciprocal tariff scheme. Under his chairmanship Industry can expect deep cuts in its protective rates but Agriculture will be kept well inside the wall. On War debts he is relatively open-minded, except...
Statesman Titulescu writhed "yes." His friendly foe, the Premier, fixed his ear, put him to bed until a specialist arrived by roaring motor from Bucharest...
...Alexander Vaida-Voevod, who served as Premier for a time last year, commanded him to form a Cabinet. To outsiders chief interest in this Rumanian shift lay in the fact that M. Vaida-Voevod. when last Premier, nearly signed a non-aggression pact with Rumania's long-standing foe, the Soviet union. With this pact negotiated-lying on the table, so to speak- Moscow cocked a keen, expectant eye on Bucharest...
...habit of getting dead drunk for months at a time, leave to their hardy children the task of feeding the reindeer. When two Lapp men fight in earnest-and if they fight at all it is generally in earnest-the victor is apt to make a eunuch of his foe. Last week King Gustaf V of Sweden received an offer of charity to his Lapps from the famed Swedish author-physician, Dr. Axel Munthe (The Story of San Michele) who firmly believes the Lapps are a favored people, able to converse with gnomes and elves...
...attempt to break the police line bottling up their followers. At the Capitol special guards were posted and even ordinary sightseers were turned away. Vice President Curtis consented to receive three demonstrators and their petitions-but no more. Most Senators and Representatives felt that they were fighting a foe as intangible as the widespread misery the Red marchers claimed to represent...