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...come must be adopted and financed, if accepted in their entirety today, would throw a tax burden upon the people that would cripple business, check prosperity and convert our annual surplus into an annual deficit. What needs to be done should be done. ... If I err in my judgment I prefer to err on the side of saving rather than on the side of spending...
...Hatto sat down to a glutton's feast at his table, fierce rats assailed him in droves. He fled on horseback, rowed to a tower in the middle of the Rhine, locked himself in. There the rats followed and devoured him. Poet Southey celebrated this event in "God's judgment upon a Wicked Bishop...
These advertisements have passed under the scrutiny of the juries which will award the $14,000 in prizes to the winners in the competition, but final judgment has not yet been passed on them...
...Washington authorities merely send carefully phrased messages to the newspapers, and insist that there must be assurance that American property rights will not be jeopardized, before they will submit to any judgment upon these rights. Arbitration under such circumstances resembles taking what one wants and flipping a coin to see if one was justified. An uncomfortable suspicion arises that the administration is marking time until revolution shall break out in Mexico and enable "the Devil-Dogs" to go in to restore order, protect American lives and property, and allow the United States Petroleum interests to develop Mexican resources in their...
Critics have nearly always prophesied speedy neglect for Richard Strauss,* now 62, and have simultaneously hailed him again and once more the foremost living composer. The subject of their judgment may be an old man, his apogee undoubtedly passed. But the creations of Richard Strauss, are never treated casually, for his work is intensely personal and his personality is provoking. Looking upon the philosophical brow, dreamy eyes, sensitive lips, effeminate chin, one marvels how this musician can grate so on the world. There is his mercenariness. Once he invited notables from all parts of Europe to a supper given after...