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...Alberta's Social Credit Premier William C. ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, the profitless acres of the neighboring Province of Saskatchewan have long seemed a fertile field for the extension of his political and economic theories. For nine years, Saskatchewan's staple crop-wheat -has either brought non-profit prices or has been burned out by successive droughts. With more than half the Province's 930,893 inhabitants on relief, conditions are fairly favorable for ambitious politicians with any kind of palliatives...
...This ideal . . . has in recent years encountered serious difficulties. And these difficulties are increasing. ... In some fields it is now profitless to go where we formerly went. We find ourselves stopped at some frontiers-not because the frontiers have any greater geographical significance than they had a few years ago, but because behind them the search for truth by eager and skeptical minds has been made impossible...
...whole tip of the Shantung peninsula was last week nipped off by Japanese forces. They not only completed the capture of Tsingtao (TIME, Jan. 10), but with little fighting gained control at one stroke of 11,000 square miles, their biggest haul in weeks. It was a profitless victory in one respect, for they found Chinese had wrecked and burned some $100,000,000 of Japanese property, mostly factories and warehouses, including 438 Japanese private homes in Tsingtao. This, however, will provide a good excuse for demanding an indemnity and the forehanded Japanese promptly valued their wrecked houses at some...
Government Uncertainty. If Business bears no love for Franklin Roosevelt, the attitude of N. A. M. speakers towards his Administration was diplomatic. Avoiding the futile acrimony which characterized their meeting two years ago and the equally profitless sweetness which veiled their feelings last year, the delegates spoke their mind on the New Deal with dignity and restraint. In one of the most sense-making of the orations Lammot du Pont pointed out that for private industry to create jobs for 3,000,000 workers required investment of at least $25,000,000,000- money invested "a year, two years, perhaps...
...floor of the Senate. Senator Logan who had sponsored the defeated bill was allowed to move to recommit it. Only 20 last-ditch fighters voted against him. Seventy other Senators jumped into the breach provided for them by John Nance Garner, to settle in an hour a profitless wrangle that had played havoc with public affairs for nearly six months...