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...United States with South America has declined 82 per cent, whilst the total foreign trade went down only 69 per cent. This starting decrease is due in part to a not unjustified distrust of this country as the "Colossus of the North," but it can also be attributed to sober economic causes. Constantly rising tariff walls, some necessary for the protection of United States industry and some purely arbitrary, have served to shunt an unwonted amount of Latin American commerce into European ports. The present difficulty of getting foreign monetary exchange, due to the instability of the dollar...
...British Navy, has been in commission long enough for the high command of most of the world's navies to be well aware of her secrets. She was being refitted last week for service to China. What Critic Bywater saw and described for NANA would make sober reading for Japanese jingoes: "Imagine a section of a subway, complete with a double set of rails well over 100 yards long, and lacking only the platforms, advertisements and escalators, and you have a fairly accurate picture of the Adventure's mine deck. ''This unique railway is served...
...delegation defies all probabilities by asking the captain to go 500 mi. off his course to land them in neutral territory. The captain naturally refuses. He takes no precautions and is naturally rewarded with mutiny. When the mutineers try to make the captain holystone the deck, he kills the sober ringleader and is killed himself. Like all revolutions, the mutiny swings rapidly Left and toward the captain's beautiful widow. At the end of its swing it meets the mate who has gotten a pistol. Ac companied by thunder, lightning, howls and pistol shots, he gets control of ship...
...Marxist interpretation of American literature since the Civil War, written by a Communistic professor of English at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute. The first book to judge American literature on the basis of its recognition and treatment of the class struggle, it is a not unimportant addition to the more sober literature of the Revolution...
...General Johnson must feel something like a well-used intellectual fingerbowl. It is not entirely without significance that the American Legion was the most prominent thing in the parade, for it bore a strong resemblance to a Legion convention, with, however, one great difference: last night the Legionnaires were sober...