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...time has come to speak out on behalf of America???not a nation that has lost its way, but a restless people striving to find a better...
...question may arise?when there is so much talk of American art for America???why a foreign teacher? My answer is that a teacher is artists' material. Just as all American artists use foreign canvas because it is best, so we may use good foreign instruction...
...Within the last few years the situation has completely changed. . . . Today the greatest structural weakness of the public utility industry in America???I say structural weakness in order to make an exception of the other far more fatal weakness, the low social standards of certain leaders of public utility finance?is the superstructure of the holding company and of the so-called investment company which in turn controls that holding company. . . . The change is three-fold and may be characterized by ... irrational consolidation. overcapitalization and uncontrolled service charges...
Governor Sterling ignored their heckling. "Governor Long is long on pajamas. I am informed he has more than any other man in America??? and not one of them is cotton...
United Fruit did not have to wait long for its answer. Exactly one week after the Logtown outrage?over the weekend, as is customary in Latin America???civil war suddenly erupted in Honduras just north of Nicaragua against the government of President Vincente Mejia Colindres. Rebel forces under Generals Diaz and Ferrera fell upon the north coast towns of Tela, Progreso and Ceiba, were repulsed by loyal troops, seized fruit company locomotives, cars, tracks. Standard Fruit (Honduras holdings: 164,000 acres in bananas; 250 mi. of railroad) and United Fruit ordered its ships to stand by at the ports...