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...Chamberlain, "I shall submit to Parliament whatever proposals may be necessary to give effect to the measures we have agreed to." He presented in his budget no figure for such payments, either by Britain to the U. S. or to Britain from the Continent. "The best course is to refrain from all conjectures," said he, "and treat the account on both sides as being in suspense." By this technique Neville Chamberlain balanced his "maiden budget" at roughly $3,000,000.000?the lowest British balancing figure since...
...others since then. I am wondering if the gentleman who wrote this article is an authority on jokes. If so, it probably would be a good idea for you to have him write an obsolete joke column in TIME so that the ignorant people could be kept posted and refrain from telling or laughing at them. The statement as to the people being ignorant is a more important one to me. It is a grossly misrepresented statement, as can easily be seen from the impartial viewpoint of thousands who have visited our city and State. How could the people...
...cinema that it can be regarded as a more rigid pillar of the industry than Mr. Zukor, Mr. Lasky or Mr. Hertz. But Shanghai Express is" a picture of the new school, and when Marlene Dietrich promises Warner Oland to visit him at his castle if he will refrain from destroying Clive Brook's eyesight with a red hot poker, you will not find the situation banal...
...perished, were heroic and gay, weak, bewildered and absurdly brave during the months of a Terroy--Madame Woronoff is distinguished for her gift of expressiveness--and her narrative seems to me to be so revealing and so alive and so eminently readable that I could not. If would, refrain from saying that it should be read' by everyone interested in history and to human beings." Olgo Worenoff lives with her husband and small daughter. Tatiaua, in a small cottage on an estate in St. David's, Pennsylvania...
...submarines and the abolition of poison gases. Unfortunately, no method of enforcing the abolition of these instruments is available, except by moral sanction. Events of the past months have not strengthened the world's faith in such paper phrases. It is impossible to believe that any nation would refrain from using such potent weapons in a major war, pledge or no pledge...