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Some comfort to harassed Mr. Gandhi was the arrest at Annand last week for the sixth time of Mrs. Gandhi, a disciple whose example of martyrdom grows more precious as other disciples desert the Mahatma. Since he deserted the popular cause of trying to free India for the unpopular one of trying to gain equality for India's "untouchables" his prestige has steadily waned. At Nagpur last month scurrilous Indians even pelted eggs at St. Gandhi, missed their mark...
...flavoring, makes ten gallons of potable blended whiskey. That is how, in various degrees, U. S. distillers intend to make their present stocks of 21,000,000 gal. go around. One-third of all whiskey in the U. S. is in Pennsylvania warehouses. Four-fifths of Schenley Distillers' precious 5,000,000 gal. are there. National Distillers has 2.000,000 gal. impounded. Until they pay Governor Pinchot some $14,000,000 cash they cannot touch it. Every distillery in the State shut down tight last week. Thousands of men were summarily discharged, grain and fuel orders canceled. Distillers felt...
...effigy burning, and banners on the campus--and when I say campus, I mean campus and not Yard--reading Hit Hard Harvard. In a word, Harvard simply hasn't got the good old lack of spirit she had in 1925. This lack of spirit in those days was a precious thing, and a contagious thing. Every Harvard team from football to chess reflected it, and lost gracefully to Yale with a consistency that enervated H men from the third story cheer leader to President Lowell. By Gad, there never was a class like 1925, and the old lack of spirit...
...jewelry firms still hang unsold over the market and even the desire for possession of tangible goods as a hedge against Inflation has not led to any appreciable buying of jewels-possibly due partly to fear that if the South African diamond syndicate operating under that dominion's Precious Stones Act of 1927 ever let go its artificial limitation of supply, owners of diamonds might be left high & dry. But although Americans are not hoarding precious stones, and cannot hoard the No. 1 precious metal, gold, there has been a large demand for the No. 2 precious metal, silver...
...factories and plants. . . ., The football sweater of the shock-brigader, the kerchief md ribbons of a young Communist girL the passing banner of the shock-brigade, the childish poster with its turtle or its steam engine, or the torn canvas trousers-are they not a thousand, thousand times more precious to us than Danton's brown frockcoat, Desmoulins' overturned chair, the Phrygian night cap, the order for arrest signed by the blue hands of Robespierre, the last letter of the Queen, and the faded tri-color cockade, ancient and light, like a dry flower?" So says Author Valentine...