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...Prof. Hatton's round table was only one of many. Dizzy was the rate with which all U. S. (and some foreign) affairs spun metaphorically round and round. Thus, for example, Prof. Latane is an expert on Latin America. He knows that since 1900, U. S. investments in the Caribbean, Central and South America have increased from the nest egg of $300,000,000 to the imperial fortune of $5,000,000,000. As an historian he stated his fear that so much money would lead the U. S. into imperialism of the bad sort, and concluded...
...Democrats, at least into Hoover voters and Smith voters. In many an instance the final determination of the individual to vote for Hoover or for Smith will not occur until November. A pretty girl at the polling booth, or an ugly man, or a hangover, a new hat, a spun coin, will be the deciding factor...
Jacques Garneau, the champion dancer of Quebec province, spun and hopped, snapped his gnarled fingers, and clapped his hands...
...theme of the Chamber's convention, chosen by President Lewis Eugene Pierson, was "Teamwork for Prosperity." The speakers spun many a variation thereanent, on competition (War), Federal regulation (Politics), commercial integrity (Ethics). Secondary to these considerations were the speeches on economics. The high point of the week came when the Chamber passed a resolution occasioned by the Rockefeller-Stewart controversy in the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana...
Twelve Thousand. Everyone knows that the web of history is spun by a spider, that wars are lost with a horseshoe nail. Therefore it is not hard to be convinced by this gentle and determined fable wherein Bruno Frank explains why it was that a greedy German prince did not sell 12,000 of his peasants to fight for England in the War of the Revolution. Piderit, the prince's secretary, is a wise, gloomy and sardonic patriot who does not wish to see these helpless mercenaries, among them his two brothers, driven away to fight a foreign...