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Last week the replies came in. It was, of course, plainer than ever how split the Democrats are. Bitterly did the Drys deplore Chairman Raskob's activities as "unwise," "untimely," "dictatorial." They contended that 1932 should be fought out solely on economic issues. Equally loudly the Wets acclaimed Chairman Raskob's "courage . . . sanity . . . leadership...
Such (with the customary split infinitive) was President Hoover's answer last week to the 47th deficit in U. S. fiscal history, estimated at $800,000,000 by June 30.* His statement was designed to reassure Business & Industry and to ease the prospective popular pressure on Congress at its next session for additional relief funds for this, that & the other. The President was going to rely upon short-term borrowings to keep the Government going until better times. This policy has the support of all regular Republicans who are well aware that any tax-upping next winter would...
...Acts of God and complete collapse, the Port of New York Authority last week insured its vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River and its nearly completed bridge over the same stream. The $55,000,000 policy, the largest of its kind ever taken out in New York State, was split among 30 companies. As unusual as the size was the rate: 16? per $100. On most transportational structures, premiums range between...
Before flying north to report to his editor, one U. S. correspondent took a last look at the city. The wreck of a saloon, split open to the sun, stood on the outskirts. From the one remaining wall still swung the sign SANGRE Y ARENA- Blood and Sand...
...macabre sense of humor. His pride is his private collection of objects which have been used in attempts to assassinate him. In neat glass cases are the poisoned feeding bottle which nearly did him in before he was a year old; a stone on which he nearly split his head as a boy; an assassin's rusty knife; the skeleton of the horse that was killed by a bomb in Paris as he drove with President Loubet in 1905; bits of the other bomb that killed a dozen bystanders and soldiers on his wedding day, splattered himself and his bride...