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...pipes of the unwilling. Whereas the resulting mental dyspopsis has never yet produced a Carlyle and Whereas, dyspopsis or no dyspopsis, everyone is pretty well fed up: the Vagabond hereby inaugurates his first active crusade. The Examination must go. Alone he can do nothing. As a Gandhiary incendiary, this pinch of salt would more to smiles, not action. Yet speed is necessary, for the Blue Abomination already has Athena by the throat...
...Gloomily received Minister of Labor Edouard Grinda's announcement that 17,500 persons are now on the French "dole." Two months ago the number was less than 2,000, year ago it was 1,100; but prosperous, gold-hoarding France has suddenly begun to feel a slight pinch from the world boojum of "Depression." Instant Reaction: The State Railways offered reduced fares to foreign laborers desirous of leaving France. Expulsion measures were mooted...
...having beer now but when summer comes we're going to have champagne," James Augustine Farrell, trim and stocky little president of U. S. Steel, declared: "We have in our hands the power to restore the steel industry to prosperity in 60 days. . . . This is no time to pinch off a penny or two. . . . The depression is only temporary. ... I agree with Mr., Schwab the situation is a little better...
...Russians find it necessary to ration their own people and to shoot men for forging food cards!" This is exactly what Moscow's "Man of Steel" can do, is doing, will continue to do up to a purposeful point. When the Russian stomach begins to feel the pinch it is and will be convenient to execute subordinates for "plotting famine." Europe's Reation: Swamped with Eggs!" Not only wheat but barley, corn, eggs, lumber and other commodities were rumored dumped by Russia last week upon Europe. M. Le Senateur Henri Cheron, famed Finance Minister of France...
...Canberra last week Australian canaries were beginning to feel the pinch of singing on Australian seed instead of the imported sort to which they have been used. The embargo on chutney, peanut butter, cigarets and wine means that "Major Grey's Chutney," "BeechNut Peanut Butter," "Abdullah Cigarets" and "Mumm's Cordon Rouge" are totally excluded from Australia. It is not a question of scaling a tariff wall. This is an absolute embargo: "Peanut butter shall not pass!" The exclusion is as rigid against products of Mother England as against those of the U. S. or China...