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...things, "Krish-naji sees something saner and finer emerging and a rather soul-sick intelligentsia turn to the astonishing and uncanny vitality of this stripling-scholar, not for bromidic guesswork, but for a bracing challenge to women and men to shake off ''bribe of Heaven and threat of Hell " and stand on their own feet...
Reprisals. The threat of foreign tariff reprisals alarmed big exporting industrialists as much as the prospective disruption of the world trade cycle. Thirty nations have filed 161 specific protests against items in the Hawley-Smoot bill. Canada, best U. S. customer, has made a provisional upward revision of its tariff which would adversely affect 25% of the goods imported by the U. S. and give British imports a much higher preference rating. Cuba was moving in the same direction...
...French Threat. Antitariff feeling against the U. S. ran particularly high in France. There U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge who as a New Jersey Senator had consistently voted for all maximum duties, got a bitter taste of the foreign by-product of his party's tariff policy. Last week at a Chamber of Commerce dinner in the Roubaix-Tourcoing woolen district, Ambassador Edge heard this direct threat from a potent French speaker: "European nations stand together on one point-if the United States closes her markets, these countries will consider themselves justified in following the same steps...
When he heard of Mrs. Dougherty's threat, Father Dougherty was reconciled to letting his son keep the money and support him. Son Edward turned the money over to his employer (De Coppett & Doremus) for investment...
...inspiration for the church spire came from the fine spire of the old North Church in New Haven. I was afraid all through that one of the Yale boys would also work from that, but none of them did." Well might Winner Reichardt have feared the Yale threat, for in the past four years two Yale men from the recently enlarged art school at New Haven have won the Prix de Rome for architecture. Schools with the greatest number of fellowship winners are: 1) Columbia; 2) Pennsylvania; 3) M. I. T. and Yale...