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...reason to suppose that it will not be similarly applied in the United States. Nor, if his analysis of the instrument be correct, is there any reason to suppose so. What has made capitalism, in the words of G.K. Chesterton "not only a discredited ethic but a bankrupt business" is a technical advance safe only under social ownership, and that advance has been operative even more in these countries than in Germany or Italy. Mussolini and Hitler found their work easier through the existence of large peasant classes, and these classes have no counterpart here or in Great Britain...
...carry out these principles will not bankrupt your Government. It is my hope that in so far as justice concerns those whose disabilities are, as a matter of fact, of War service origin, the Government will be able to extend even more generous care than is now provided...
Instead of building up its case against speculation, Golden Harvest at this point launches a fantastic compromise. Walt Martin organizes a farmers' strike. Chris cooperates by using his knowledge of the strike to boom wheat prices on the exchange. The farm strike collapses in time to bankrupt him. In its effort to give an appearance of having proved something, Walt Martin is shown telling a group of financiers that the next farm strike will be more serious, and Mrs. Chris Martin seems to have grown more fond of her husband. A few good bits of wheat-farming local color...
With the French Government facing a staggering budgetary deficit of some six billion francs ($235,000,000 gold, $360,000,000 Roosevelt), knife-faced Finance Minister Georges Bonnet was as glum last week as Louis XV when that profligate and nearly bankrupt King was visited by the sly Venetian Adventurer Giovanni Casanova de Seingalt...
...wind, he lost his balance and fell 120 ft. from the Delaware River Bridge; in Philadelphia. Died. Horace Brisbin Liveright, 46, Manhattan publisher and stage producer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A onetime bond salesman, he, with Albert Boni, formed Boni & Liveright, Inc., which later became Liveright Inc., now bankrupt. Some of his authors: Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, : Emil Ludwig, Robinson Jeffers, Ben ; Hecht, Hendrik Van Loon. Died. Michael Joseph ("Turkey Mike") Donlin, 57, actor, oldtime baseballer; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He was the strutting, clowning, umpire-baiting captain of the New York Giants team...