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Brutally last week Dictator Kemal snubbed the useless loyalty of Turkey's eunuchs. An admirer of Italian Fascism, he had borrowed Mussolini's bachelor tax idea. But when he set out to test it in the district of Smyrna, he chose to forget about Turkey's unique variety of bachelor, unknown in Italy. To the Turkish tax collectors, the eunuchs were neither women nor married men; hence, they were bachelors liable to the tax. Other men could escape the levy by means of a hasty marriage to one of Turkey's still ample supply of women...
...Stoddard gets more practical, he says "that we should export arms only f.o.b., so that ships flying our flag would not be involved." Similarly Americans should only sail in American boats, lest they get hurt; otherwise it's their own fault, and the government should forget them. Such naivete is dangerous. When an American or British ship was torpedoed in 1915, and its cargo lest, it meant another order for the Yankees, c.o.d., or f.o.b. It was just tough luck on the crew, but it was also another million-dollar order. And let Mr. Stoddard consider that the war propaganda...
...Governor Horner's State Finance Director. An Ames cousin is Charles Gates Dawes. Rosemary Ames's first husband was Samuel Insull's private secretary, E. Ogden Ketting. Her second is Bertie Alexander Meyer, London producer. Perhaps he will help her get less wooden direction, help her forget she is Acting...
Walking Elysian fields the saints forget The salt of human tears. . . . Only Saint Anthony can never rest...
...Kahn examined them painstakingly, looked up and said: "You are Socialists and Communists but I don't mind as long as you are faithful to art." Back in the 1890's Banker James Stillman used to say of him: "A promising chap if he only will forget that art nonsense.'' On his office desk a friend once found a highly technical treatise, The Monetary Chaos, side by side with a 'cello concerto of a contemporary German composer...