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...offset writing that is frequently jerky, Here Today has the polished direction of George S. Kaufman. To offset the miscasting of Messrs. Macdonald and Brown it has the almost perfect casting of Misses Gordon, Bates, Granville. It is Actress Bates who states the theme of the play...
...offset some of these losses there emerged from the conference one proposal that heartened U. S. manufacturers. The day the meeting closed Delegate O'Kelly despatched to a newspaper friend in the U. S. the following offer...
Special Session. Correspondents expect that it will be a very special session of the Diet indeed. Reports persisted that to offset the coming publication of the League report on Manchuria, which it is generally expected will hold Japan guilty of aggression in Manchuria, Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida will echo an idea which Japanese say was tossed off by the late great Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 in one of his imperialistic moments: a Japanese expanded Monroe Doctrine, by which Japan will announce herself the guardian and protector of new Asiatic nations during their adolescence...
...past ten years. It now amounts to 70% of the world's total. Accustomed to whopping big increases year after year, insurance men were disappointed in last year's trifling increase in total insurance in force. The $16,400,000,000 of new business was almost entirely offset by lapses and surrenders of policies. There have been only a few life insurance receiverships, among small concerns, during the Depression and the big companies have invariably taken over the policies, in almost every case without loss to the policy holder. This practice is not to save the face...
James William Crabtree, secretary of N. E. A. said that schools have not shown anything like "the breakdown that is shown in finance and industry. . . . Losses have been offset with . . . a gain in the morale and faith of the teaching profession...