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...blame accrues to the G. O. P.'s strategy on Nov. 3. Yet smart newshawks who compared the tone of Nominee Landon's acceptance speech last week with the tone of You And I-And Roosevelt did not underrate the position of Charlie Taft in the Topeka setup. Officially this Ohio middle-of-the-roader is supposed to advise the nominee and his campaign strategists only on relief and social security. But if Alf Landon moves into Charlie Taft's boyhood home in Washington next January, he will be indebted to that young counsellor of moderation...
...there ever has been any reckless, careless way of handling Government funds, the evidence in this case certainly shows it. It is not the duty of this court to pass on those matters. It is not interested in them. Here you have seen for yourself the setup where billions of dollars are being expended and yet it is sent down here, and you say 'go ahead and build your own setup, you go ahead and handle it.' How you are going to handle it, the Lord only knows...
This medical setup might have been in comfortable equilibrium with the 5,600,000 people who were living in California when Depression began. Enough Californians then were healthy, enough doctors were wealthy, for everyone to be comparatively happy. This year California has 6,400,000 inhabitants. Old doctors who retired to balmy California for the rest of their lives have lost their savings and are resuming active practice. Younger doctors who were engaged in business, such as the Manhattan physician who took up house-wrecking in Santa Barbara, are again practicing medicine, for the most part outside the C.M.A...
...prescribed amount of well-drilling and, after potential production has reached about 20,000 bbl. per day, the building of a pipeline more than 200 miles to the Colombian coast. In the end, though, Texaco and Socony will have to stand the costs. Most favored parties in the Barco setup are the Colombian Government and the heirs of old General Barco and interests like American Maracaibo Co., who have bought shares in his original royalty rights. Without putting up a cent, Colombia and the Barco heirs & assigns will eventually receive total royalties amounting to some 10% of all Barco...
Since the Rhineland is German soil, the election might have seemed a setup, the issue foolproof. Yet last week Adolf Hitler was taking no chances...