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...that also is part of the, plan, anticipated by Dictator Stalin and the Communist Party and to be borne stoically by Russians until Oct. 1, 1933, if necessary. For until that date the Soviet Government and "Boss" Stalin have thoroughly committed themselves to an economic problem which is to transform the Soviet Union into an industrial giant, nourished during the next four years by a 24-billion-dollar investment in factory equipment. Of this huge sum 78% is being spent on machines to make machines, only 22% on the manufacture of goods for direct consumption. Therefore Soviet stores have little...
...Chafee Jr. of the Harvard Law School discovered in it a little-noted provision designed to exclude from the U. S. all seditious literature. Prof. Chafee complained that this restriction would cut the U. S. off from a large sector of the political and economic thought of Europe, would transform the customs service into literary censors...
...major purpose of commercialization would be to transform the political debts of Germany to the powers into purely business debts to individuals. Then if by any chance Germany should go bankrupt or bolshevik, the bond salesmen would have made their commissions, the Great Powers would have their money, and only the individuals who bought bonds would be out of pocket. Though the roulette wheel of peoples and politics spins and spins-red or black the bank will...
...Italy, since they are "more of a nuisance than a benefit." The daring rebuker of Il Duce's favorite editor was Signor Ezio Maria Gray, President of the Italian State Tourist Bureau. Wrote he, apostrophizing Editor Carli: "Perhaps, as you say, there are travelers who would like to transform Italy into a large scale gaming house, have jazz bands playing under the dome of St. Peter's, or turn the Coliseum into an amusement park. You may berate such people all you like, but for heaven's sake don't exaggerate, and at least have...
Architect Henry Killam Murphy is famed for his many notable successes in blending Occidental materials into Chinese style. He designed the building of Yenching College, Peiping, Yale-in-China, Changsha, and Gingling College, Nanking. He will now receive carte blanche to transform Nanking into a modern, imposing and yet Chinese capital, may spend...