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...bank and the big banker that makes more noise than a pig under a fence. It is the big banker who goes to the R. F. C. and it is the big banker who started the banking holiday. The little banker keeps on and on despite the onus that has been given to his profession. Give the smalltown banker credit for a job well done. ALLEN D. RUSSELL Plymouth Savings Bank Plymouth, Mass...
...attempt at biography. And if this necessitates any mitigation of rigor, let it be said that in a superficial way the picture of Vienna in 1815 is accurate and at times interesting, and that during the last fifty pages, when Talleyrand and Mr. Cooper are relieved of the political onus, the pictures and phrasing acquire a new freshness. But to all save the most causal reader, this latest plunge into the mystery of Talleyrand is worthless; considered as an historical document, it offers practically nothing save a superficial rehash of secondary material; considered as biography, it loses all effectiveness...
...left of the depression, With fifty thousand tomes appended, Telling just how it can be ended. To Congressmen who'll draw our salary, We leave all gunmen in the gallery, All Communists who march and fight And threaten us with dynamite. Those stalwart ones may have the onus Of laying hands upon the bonus. The currency-to them we hand it, To shrink, contract it, or expand it. We'll let them exercise their talents On making that thar' budget balance. And, pointing out, with no delaying, A tax the public won't mind paying...
...commentaries on governmental philosophy and machinery; section meetings, without able guidance by instructors, have been consumed by the quibbling energies of embryo lawyers. The department has made many attempts to liberalize the course through elimination of weekly tests, introduction of optional texts, and exemption of honor men from the onus of hour examinations. But the main weakness has remained...
...present tax program and, along with Governor Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board, conceived the idea of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. High-born, rich and brainy. Secretary Mills goes to the Cabinet a good man at a bad time. On him will fall a good portion of the onus for tax-upping. His will be the discouragement of keeping a Government's unbalanced books in hard times...