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...what was wrong with the U. S. First Great Name to open last week's hearing was Bernard Mannes Baruch. His advice: "Balance the Budget. Tax everybody for everything. Take hungry men off the world's pavements." He proposed the following farm relief plan: Let the Government allot production quotas on corn, cotton, wheat and tobacco and then lease the farm land thus left idle at an average of $3 per acre per year, thereby compensating the producer for accepting his quota; let the Government collect a processing tax not upon individual products but upon all agricultural commodities...
Whatever position posterity or his peers may allot him it will certainly be superior to that of Beverly Nichols (who wrote his autobiography at 25). An increasing body of readers have already found him a Most Amusing, if not Most Important, author...
...General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South) at Montreat, N. C., last week made no such ado about Birth Control and the Council. Forthright conservatives who know their own minds, they simply denounced Birth Control, refused to allot their annual scot of $750 to the Federal Council, and voted complete severance from that interdenominational organization, although expressing for it unanimous "fraternal love...
...diplomatic worlds by demanding for Britain "MORE SPONGE CAKE!" But only last week was it possible to state that he wanted precisely 45 million marks more cake ($10,800,000) every year, until Germany has fully paid up her reparations. Since the Young Plan as originally drafted would allot 409 million marks annually to Great Britain, the Chancellor's demand would bring her share up to 454 million marks ($108,960,000). That was what correspondents called last week "Snowden's Second Ultimatum...
From the offices of the Federal Radio Commission there issued, last week, a dictum. The Commission exercised its right to allot the 639 short-wave channels which are available to commercial broadcasters in the U. S. ether. The Commission had to discriminate among 848 applicants, who asked a total of 2,204 channels...