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...unreasoning to suppose that the President knows what he is doing in the matter of gold buying. For he knows that the cry of terror about the government's credit is meaningless in view of the ever present possibility of forcing the sale of an unlimited quantity of bonds to the Federal Reserve Banks at par. And perhaps he only pretends that he expects to raise prices by buying gold, that he even expects or wants to raise prices at all. A good way of convincing foreign countries that the gold buying policy is not intended "artificially" to stimulate American...
...intended. The Chamber will be left to face of itself the necessity of balancing the budget, Premier Sarraut indicated. When he asked a vote of confidence, more than 200 bored Deputies abstained, only a few Communists and Fascists voted against him, and his Cabinet won by the pleasant if meaningless figure 320 to 32. In the lull thus created French politicians dickered feverishly to create a new Government majority necessitated by the Socialists' recent split with Premier Sarraut's Radical Socialists (actually Liberals) and based on a promising alignment which loomed last week between the Radical Socialists...
...that has been said and thought of her, one clear fact emerges: each of her books has been a landmark, although on many different courses, and each of them offers, along with her tract "How To Write," a sufficient support for its own art. Many individual pieces are partially meaningless to us; no one person has made his own every facet of her achievement. That their logic is architectoric rather than progressive may make critical formulae inadequate but cannot serve as a serious challenge to the work itself...
...liability is limited to" $5,000 or $10,000. A 1931 award set the precedent that all planes operating on regular advertised schedules are "common carriers" like railroads, just as liable as railroads for the death or injury of passengers. Hence in most States the clause is meaningless except in a few Western States which limit liability in case of death to $10,000 or less per person. But planes privately chartered like taxicabs to take passengers when & where they want to go have been exempt from this common carrier category. Best the relatives of the dead could...
...lasting friendships and associating with others having the same thing in common. To those on the outside the clubs may appear as mutual backslapping societies organized to protect the congenitally incompetent from their intellectual superiors. There are the kindred activities of house committees and class politics, engrossing but perhaps meaningless because of disuse...