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...interest from long delay, guarding against too-frequent revisions of the whole tariff. It had been held constitutional, he reminded. It did not make the President a despot, etc., etc. Having thus broken his silence on the Tariff, President Hoover once more fell silent, watched the Tariff War from afar...
...branch bank can be of more assistance in time of trouble because its risks are spread over wide area; that in branch banking credit is very liquid so that it can find in any one locality as much as may be required, bringing the funds if necessary from afar; that management is much more likely to be competent and honest in a few strong hands than in many weak ones...
...Fleischmann company. "The Yeast Must Go Through" is the watchword in every Fleischmann office. During the New England floods of November 1927, Fleischmann chartered all the airplanes at the Boston Airport, even newsmen and news services could get planes only through the Fleischmann Traffic Department. First arrivals from afar in the flooded districts were airmen carrying Fleischmann yeast. Nor is Fleischmann service limited only to yeast deliveries. When a Fleischmann baker died suddenly, leaving a distracted widow with several small children, one Fleischmann man took charge of the funeral, another Fleischmann man ran the bakery until the widow was able...
...girded their armor to fall in line, daring debutantes atremble with excitement equipped themselves with stamps and awaited the word to blot from the invidious Artkino program the names of those who led the rest. Swelling the ranks, officers of commonwealth and of nation prepared to rush from points afar to insure the adequacy of the patriotic boycott on the one little Sovkino film and the one little theatre. Racing to the Hub of the revolutionary district, cabinet officials turned over in their minds ambitious plans to strengthen the tottering morale of the navy, while Moscow fairly seethed with indignation...
Dramatics at Harvard in recent years have been often characterized by an ambitious tinge of the extravaganza. A purely creative side of the theatre has perhaps been overlooked as the undergraduates brought to Cambridge work from afar in which the emphasis was decidedly on the appeal and glitter of exotic pageantry. The Dramatic Club apparently chose to focus its attention on a finished performance with all the attendant splendor of a circus parade, rather than spend the greater part of its efforts on original experimentation. The entertainment offered has been its own reward. The Club's last few performances without...