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...Woman Wise" gives a new slant on the newspaper business. A sports editor (Michael Whalen) grafts a percentage from fight promoters on the threat that he will give them no publicity in his paper. Despite this highly improbable theme, things move along rapidly and in a highly entertaining fashion...
...full is that spunky U. S. bondholders methodically set out to attach the debtors' property in the U. S., including their ships when they docked. How much money could be squeezed out of Germany if the rest of the bondholders got tough is problematical. Britain's simple threat of appropriating German trade balances for the benefit of its citizens holding German bonds brought quick results in the form of a 4% scrip offer, as against the 3% offered U. S. bondholders in the issue registered last week. German trade with Britain yields a favorable balance, which the Reich...
...duty to speak. If, however, the implications are not as broad as this, he may rather be doing free education a disservice and banking the fires of intolerance. The Roosevelt measure will have far reaching effect, but many will deny that it can be considered primarily as a threat to the educational principles for which President Conant and Harvard stand. The result of entering the political lists when the institution is not directly concerned, as it is in the oath law, is to focus the attention of the politicians on the universities, and it may engender...
...President Conant's warning concerning the threat to the judiciary and his demand that the question be submitted to the people there can be nothing but sympathy. As for the application of the letter to education, only time and the public reception will decide its justification...
Last week elated President Murchison summed up the accomplishment thus: "The American side now has security and stability where formerly there existed the threat of immeasurable and overwhelming competition. They are likewise saved from the expense, the discomfort and the misinterpretations, the recriminations, the bickerings and the hazards involved in a campaign of political action. . . . On their side, the Japanese will have for the years 1937 and 1938 a volume of business greatly in excess of any previously enjoyed in the American market. . . They are also freed from the danger of tariff increases or other forms of restrictive legislation...