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...Members of Parliament, cheering Premier Baldwin to the echo. Before the press gallery had recovered from its amazement at this, the first official mention of Italy in the House as a possible British adversary, pompous, paunchy Sir Thomas Inskip, newly appointed Minister for Defense Coordination, was up, waving a sheaf of papers in one hand, reporting on what he has so far accomplished to get Britain ready for war. Naval Building. The Admiralty has asked for $51,500,000 beyond its original estimate of $349,650,000 to build two battleships, five cruisers, nine destroyers, one aircraft carrier, four submarines...
Figures. The League of Nations Secretariat produced a mimeographed sheaf of figures last week to show that even the weaseling sanctions now in force had been a body blow to Italy. All figures were based on U. S. gold dollars. Italian imports of merchandise that totaled $14,650,000 in February 1935 dropped to $8,239,000 for February 1936. Exports were cut almost 50%. The country most effective in applying sanctions was Yugoslavia, which bought only $300 worth of Italian goods in February. The U. S. profited most from trading with outlawed Italy, her exports from November 1935 through...
...which now keeps two stenographers and a pair of secretaries busy. Mrs. Dare Starck McMullin, an old friend of Mrs. Hoover, is the secretary who culls the Hoover mail. Secretary Paul Sexson, a handsome young Stanford graduate, goes through a dozen newspapers airmailed daily from the East and a sheaf of pertinent editorials which Hoover friends also airmail in from ail over the country. In addition, to keep the "Chief" posted on national and world affairs, the Stanford War Library, which Trustee Hoover helped to endow, is required to send in a daily report on the mutations of Fascism, Communism...
...President Roosevelt's reply to such attacks was not a defense of the bill, but a new, headline-making slap at the rich. Centring a sheaf of penciled notes on his knickknack-littered desk, he announced to newshawks that he had been making a personal study of the tax returns of 58 people who in 1932 had incomes of $1,000,000 or more per year. These, he declared with a broad grin and an obvious dig at William Randolph Hearst, whose newspapers had taken to calling the tax bill a "soak the thrifty" measure, were...
...worth of boondoggling and leaf-raking. Just to prove that it would not be boondoggling he was going to read a list of the projects approved day before yesterday. Let the newshawks stop him when they got tired. The President picked up a twelve-page sheaf of papers, commenced to read such items as the following...