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...President-reject his last speech is generally his most difficult. On domestic questions his voice has ceased to carry popular authority. On foreign issues the nations of the world are inclined to accord him only the scantiest attention. Such was the problem President Hoover faced last week when he journeyed to Manhattan to deliver his valedictory before the National Republican Club. He solved it with an address on the broad subject of gold...
...language a motion to default?though it was so in effect?this measure declared that "The Chamber invites the Government to summon, in accord with Great Britain and other debtors, a general conference ... to adjust all international obligations...
...influence in education, as in anything else. Under the rigid system of the past many students were either completely bored or unable to cope with the curriculum. Today such students have a variety of interests offered to them, so that school is less of a grind and more in accord with the teaching ideal of Montaigne--to inspire the pupil rather than to drive...
President Hoover's proposed cut of 700,000,000 dollars in government costs seems to be in accord with the strong sentiment for federal economy throughout the country. Since it would dangerously impair national credit to continue the budget along the lines of 1929, he has chosen this way of reducing it. Apparently there are two reasons for his doing this. First is his opposition to a beer bill (which would be a lucrative source of revenue to the government); and secondly the fact that a sales tax would be unlikely to pass Congress. The budget has to be balanced...
...Religion! "In our first or very general circle," began leonine Paul-Boncour, stroking his handsome mane, "it is simply a question-to use almost textually the expressions which on two occasions the American Secretary of State has used-of considering that since by common accord all civilized nations have outlawed war any nation making war now can no longer continue to profit by the legal rights of belligerents. "War being outlawed, it is logical that he who wages war shall be deprived of the economic aid without which adventures of this kind could get nowhere in the modern world...