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...President Hoover did not specify but it became known elsewhere that the Navy would take a $61,000,000 cut, the Army $44,000,000. But between the President's economy ($280,000,000) and the estimated deficit ($1,500,000,000) there still yawned an enormous fiscal abyss which only tax-upping seemed likely to fill...
Payment Deferred. William Marble did not know how he was going to make ends meet. He had a job in the foreign exchange department of a London bank and a wife and a daughter. Somehow the yawning abyss of inevitable paupery which gaped between his small salary and his household expenses grew wider & wider. Soon one of his creditors would complain to the bank and then nothing would be left for him but the Poor House. Into this unhappy scene, unexpectedly, comes a forgotten nephew from Australia. He is fairly prosperous, alone in the world. When Mr. Marble plunges instantly...
...rope might break the fall, though at once I was aware that no rope could halt this double fall. The bodies flew down the terrifically steep couloir. The porter of my rope team screamed with horror and looked as if he were going to throw himself down the abyss. We all felt an uncanny desire to follow them...
...ordained in the Evangelical Church in 1915, held a Detroit pastorate until 1928. He is an editor of The World Tomorrow, a popular, dynamic orator. In his introduction to the Commission's report he says: "No matter how the Christian ethic is defined it remains true that a wide abyss yawns between it and the facts and assumptions of our contemporary industrial civilizations. . . . Shall a Christian busy himself to change the social order and meanwhile accept its limitations and inequalities as a fate which he alone can not change? Do his Christian convictions require and imply action in the political...
...think it would ease Europe considerably if Germany would make a jump into the abyss and declare that out of the Young Plan payments she will pay only $144,000,000, which is secured by the German national railroads' income, and no more. England, and particularly France, would begin to rattle their swords, but I doubt whether they would again occupy German territory. After a fortnight's rattling they would inform America they were unable to pay what they...