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Alternative to these measures would be a tariff for revenue, anathema to Mr. Snowden but tempting to Mr. MacDonald. "I reiterate my opposition to such proposals," cried the Chancellor, white-lipped. "They would mean relieving the well-to-do at the expense of the poor...
...Fish Report offers a series of recommendations which aim at nothing loss than rooting Communism out of the United States by strong-arm methods. Whether one believes in Communistic principles or whether he shuns them as sheer anathema, such a study of history reveals that revolutionary propaganda thrives under oppression. The recommendations of the Fish Report once put into execution might not only supply food and nourishment to hundreds of Red publications, but also produce an hysteria throughout the country on rather dubious premises. To arouse the expectation of economic and social unrest would do little to assure business stability...
...urged that the defeated "enemy countries" (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria) should enter the E. U. on "equal terms" with the victor states? that is, these nations should be permitted to re-establish their armies. This reply ranged Italy beside Germany in seeking revision of the Peace Treaties?a policy anathema to France. In Moscow the Soviet newsorgan Pravda, while appreciative of Italy's attempt to include Russia in the E. U., declared that, in view of the program of revision which Germany and Italy are seeking to force upon unwilling France, "the Briand scheme may be considered exploded...
...breach last week and attacked the Fascist Party. Cause of the quarrel: the perambulating Fascist theatre, grandiloquently known as "Car of Thespis." From distant Sardinia word reached the Vatican last week that the Car of Thespis was not only performing the works of bald, exotic Gabriele d'Annunzio, anathema to good Catholics, but that the Fascist players had added insult to injury by playing Gabriele d'Annunzio's La Figlia di Jorio (Jorio's Daughter) on the most holy Feast of the Body of Christ, Corpus Christi, a legal holiday in all Latin countries...
...more in efficient than that prevailing in the U. S. at the beginning of the twentieth Century. . . ." The cruelties were imposed by the eccentricities and individualism of the private bankers, by the lack of a central controlling or guardian agent. But "the idea of a central banking system [was] anathema to all. The compromise between the anathema and the need was the Federal Reserve Board of which Senator Carter Glass, opponent of a central bank, once resignedly remarked, "'Oh, hell, it is a central bank.'" The Redistricting Intermezzo. The book's most personal chapter deals with...