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...Earlier in the debate, reference was so frequently made to vulgar epithets that the ladies, tittering, became embarrassed. The Speaker ordered the language stricken from the record, and asked members to avoid the vulgar quotation...
...budget balanced. It balanced ("on paper") with a surplus of 30 million francs. This surprisingly hopeful turn of events was brought about by fear. The Deputies of France saw the franc tumble down to 3.39½¢ at Manhattan, a world record for all time, and were at last stricken with the fear that if they refused again to vote adequate taxes, as they have refused for months (TIME, March 15, et ante), the franc might go the way of the pre-Dawes mark...
...HIGH ADVENTURE?Jeffery Farnol?Little, Brown ($2). "We are out upon the high adventure, you and I; battle, murder and sudden death, Bill; blood, fire and stricken field are all one to us. Show me your teeth?excellent! Look at these fists?sufficient, I venture to think. . . . Come!" Thus Jeremy Veryan to his dog as he sets out across Mr. Farnol's newest pages to escape a crabbed guardian, find his father's murderer and woo a real storybook heroine in that most romantic of epochs, the day of The Broad Highway. Nothing further is necessary to introduce this book...
Last week another merchant was stricken with natural history fever. His case was more virulent than those of Mr. James Simpson of Chicago and Mr. Walter P. Chrysler (TIME, March 8), who respectively financed but did not accompany the Roosevelt-Field Museum trip for Ovis poli (just returned from Turkestan) and the Smithsonian Institution trip for live wild creatures (just embarked for Africa). Mr. Jesse Metcalf of Manhattan, manufacturer of woolens (Metcalf Bros. & Co.), is to be not only the financier but the leader of a Bronx Zoo trip to the Dutch East Indies, to the island of Komodo...
...Germany of today is a poverty stricken nation trying to pay off the biggest indemnity of history. The former royal property includes besides castles land, and works of art, a long list of incomes, pensions, stocks and bonds, indemnities,--all worth about two billion gold marks. Do the already overtaxed people wish to pay back from the government treasury an amount three times as great as the Dawes loan? If in their present needy condition they are willing to do this, they show a loyalty to rank and property strangely incongruous in a socialist republic. Capitalists who dread Socialism will...