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...thing that the French statesmen really can do is to try to put an end to cut-throat Franco-German competition in the North Atlantic maritime trade. So successful has been the revived German merchant marine in weaning U. S. freight and tourists from the French that the subsidized French Line was forced three months ago to ask for an even larger government subsidy. The Government promised that the subsidy for the New York line alone would be raised from 4,000,000 to 30,000,000 francs a year, and in return delegated former Minister of Finance Louis Germain...
Reverently an official inserted a needle, adjusted the record on an oldtime gramophone. He turned it on. From the old trumpet came a little sound: that was probably the Bard clearing his throat. Then came his voice, dismally wailing: "Oojee Boojee! Oojee Boojee...
...conference last month with Secretary of Commerce Lament, Mr. Morrow and his coal colleagues agreed that overproduction and cut-throat competition were the curse of their industry. If they attempted to get together and regulate themselves by production and price-fixing, they faced prosecution under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. If, as Mr. Morrow proposed, the Government should step into control of the industry, it could close down the smaller mines, guide the larger ones safely around the Sherman law to profitable mergers and otherwise act to conserve a natural resource. If soft coal mining were put on a paying...
...conciliatory. Boomed bass-voiced Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise last fortnight at the Congress: "A vote for the administration of Dr. Weizmann is a vote for the present British regime! . . . An eternal disgrace! . . . You have sat too long at British feasts!" Trembling, still pale from a recent throat operation, Dr. Weizmann hurried from the hall where he had been presiding, cried: "I could not stand it any longer! It is irresponsible and unparliamentary!" Then last week, after long hours of angry debate, a coalition of anti-Weizmannites gathered 118 votes and by electing Dr. Nahum Sokolow president made known their disapproval...
...picture of an ungainly witch swaddled in an 1890 bathing suit, an arrow pointing to the knee. Legends: Consider your Knee Cap!!! Don't Rasp Your Wife's Throat With Harsh Irritants. "Reach for a Hatchet Instead" . . . Ducky Wucky Cigarettes. "They're Hash Browned," Purified by Hot Air and Advertising Rays...