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...unions, had last month accepted deep pay cuts with quiet resignation. And in Washington, despite ominous news from his Department of Labor (see p. 17), President Hoover expressed satisfaction with the way in which U. S. Industry is fulfilling its pledge of November 1929 at the White House to maintain Prosperity's wage scale through the economic storm...
...that the bandits knew perfectly well how thoroughly Managua was protected. A graceful gesture came from none other than Augusto Sandino, the insurrectionist who for years has been waging warfare against U. S. troops. By grapevine to Mexico it was announced that "all divisions" of the Sandino army would maintain an armistice until the emergency was passed...
...general impression has gotten about that Ed Wynn is quite a card. "Simple Simon," now at the Shubert, was evidently written for the sole purpose of allowing him to maintain that reputation, for the perfect fool is on the stage most of the time enlivening a rather preposterous musical comedy with bits of gay bandinage and sly drollery...
...great problem of the League is to keep Germany within the boundaries of the treaties and to maintain the present order. But Germany will not and cannot accept the present economic status. I think these two aims can eventually be harmonized, but the problem is to get Germany not to act too quickly...
...assume that the Russian experiment must fail. . . . Nevertheless, the most superficial type of analysis . . . will show that the Soviet government has a good chance to maintain itself . . . and that we cannot with reasonable safety assume that they will fail...