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...succeeded in losing two of the seven excess pounds he picked up on his vacation. ¶ Back from the London Conference, Assistant Secretary of State Moley, No. I Brain Truster, made a bee line to the White House to report to his chief. At the door newshawks upset him with questions about his expense account. London dispatches told how the U. S. Embassy had received bills totaling some $3,000 for Mr. Moley and Herbert Bayard Swope, his traveling companion. One was for $1,300 for transatlantic telephone calls. Another was for $500 for an airplane chartered to fly from...
...hand, they should recognize that the laisser faire economy in which the free traders proved their case is rapidly ceasing to exists. This country has embarked on a far-reaching program of national economic planning. It may be that the domestic adjustments of this program would be upset if our commodity and capital markets were open without restriction to foreign influences. It may turn out that the balanced industrial structure contemplated by the New Deal must be insulated from foreign shocks. The arguments for free trade as the ultimate goal are still unanswerable, but until all nations have adopted...
...same with me!" cried Prime Minister MacDonald, after which the session waxed really warm. Mr. Cox, upset by all he heard that day, was sent to bed by his doctor at 7 p. m. with one degree of fever...
Warming to this good idea, the Chancellor thundered: "We have absolute power! . . . Our program was not formed to make pretty gestures but to give life to the German people. It does not oblige us to upset everything like fools! It requires us to be clever and cautious...
...meet championship; and Warner of Yale was strong as ever in the quarter-mile run, nosing out Captain N. P. Dodge '33. The only old record which held really aloof from the meet was the Broad Jump of 1921, 25 feet, 3 inches. W. L. Hasler '34 scored an upset when he won this event, though, and his victory in this by bringing a tie with Oxford for the number of first places, really gave the meet to the Americans