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Current influenza is much milder than the devastating disease of 1918. Epidemiologists have been unable to discern rhythm or reason to these surges. In England the Press, having noted an unseasonable amount of rain, fog and snow over North Europe, blames raw weather...
Paradoxically the fall of the yen since it went off gold (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) has now produced a nationwide "inflation boom." Silk raisers who received about 1,500 yen per bale of raw silk in 1929 and were forced last July to sell at the "panic price" of 450 yen, now get 900 yen and exult that "silk prices have doubled in the last half year...
Washington, its nerves still raw from the B. E. F., was in no welcoming mood. The march's leaders postponed their demonstration a day. hurried to court in an attempt to break the police line bottling up their followers. At the Capitol special guards were posted and even ordinary sightseers were turned away. Vice President Curtis consented to receive three demonstrators and their petitions-but no more. Most Senators and Representatives felt that they were fighting a foe as intangible as the widespread misery the Red marchers claimed to represent...
...friend. He once & for all spiked talk of drafting him for the Presidency by saying: "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." When Death finally came for him in 1891 Sherman was 71. At his military funeral in Manhattan, on a raw February day, a bystander urged one of the aged pallbearers to put on his hat, warned him he might catch his death. The oldster refused, ten days later was dead of pneumonia. That was Joe Johnston...
...foods is lifted beyond reason, while in bear markets the farmers are cheated of their just returns. Professional speculators in all cases insist that they are needed to maintain an active market, necessary in stocks for investors and in commodities for merchants who must hedge their purchases of raw materials. Speculator Cutten, well aware that further regulation threatens the wheat pit, which "is for me as the deck of his ship to a sailor," insisted: "Speculation is wrong when it is done with other people's money, but who other than the speculators are going to assume the necessary...