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...speculators." Then he bluntly told the brokers they had two ways out: 1) a margin requirement of $1,000 per unit (33,600 lb.) instead of $350, and an end to pure speculation, or 2) an OPACS-imposed price ceiling "considerably below the current price." Cowed, the brokers gulped assent to the margin boost. Next day pepper prices dropped a cent to less than 6½? a Ib.-the sharpest drop in the four-year history of the pepper market...
...recent visit to Harvard, Rufus M. Jones, professor of Philosophy, emeritus, at Haverford College, and Chairman of the American Friend's service Committee, declared that if president Roosevelt gave his support to the plan for sending food to the conquered democracies, Great Britain would more than likely assent to the passage of the food ships...
Beecher, who wrote his future wife, after graduating from his father's theological seminary: "I cannot assent. What then? Preach I will, licensed or not. . . . Will you go with me into the wilderness?" Today the American wilderness sprouts populations instead of trees. But the protestant blood of the Rev. Mr. Wheelwright, the Rev. Mr. Beecher, and others like them, flows on unchanged-a bright, early-American, rebel...
...intellectual cause has become an unpopular one. Its proponents are being subjected to attacks, insults, and threats that would have seemed fantastic only a few months ago. But on an issue as important as this one it is not right to retreat, or to keep quiet, for silence gives assent, and assent may mean ruin...
What Comrade Molotov demanded of M. Saracoglu was kept veiled in Oriental secrecy. A good guess was that the Soviet Union wanted Turkey to: 1) close and keep closed the Dardanelles to belligerent warships-an action which would prevent Allied aid to Rumania; 2) give active assent to Russia's snipping Bessarabia and Bulgaria's snipping Dobruja off Rumania...