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...trade treaties add peace to the scene at the bland suggestion of the Act's coauthor, Representative William Patrick ("Billy") Connery Jr. of Massachusetts. He suggested that the Labor Standards Board would be given permissive authority to increase import duties if increased U. S. labor costs led to threat of destructive foreign competition...
...abandon him, but not the Rightist principle. Diplomatically they may move for a compromise which will restore one of the sons of Alfonso XIII (probably Don Juan, the healthiest) to the throne of Spain, counting on the backing of Britain who is eager for anything that will halt the threat of a general European...
...wipe out permanently much of the itinerant artists' handiwork and a livelihood which, although sand sculpturing has remained the piece de resistance and principal attraction, has lately come from the more lucrative practice of sketching board-walkers who pause to gawp at the modeling. Last week's threat came from the City Hall where Mayor Charles D. White, mindful that ice-cream and newspaper vendors are forbidden beach concessions, broadly hinted that beach artists are unlawful trespassers, have "no more right to do business on the beach than anyone else." What had aroused Mayor White was the sand...
...despised; on the contrary, the beneficial effects of such a constant environment on the life of an individual make for sanity and happiness. But being one of a harmonious group, though essential for the well balanced life of most of us, carries with it a constant threat, a constant insidious pressure to conform to the very bottom of our souls. How to resist this pressure without migration to a lonely mountain top is one of the main problems of the modern man who would be free...
Whether or not the Treasury price is ever cut, the threat of a cut would be a potent bargaining point in negotiations for a U. S.-British trade pact or in hastening an international stabilization agreement. Either a world economic conference or a restriction scheme for gold mining is more likely as a method of meeting the gold problem than a deflationary revision in gold prices...