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...soon as returns reached the Cortes, Conservative deputies were up in their seats yelling for power. Oppositionists gathered under the spokesmanship of a fiery Sevillian, Martinez Barrios. Premier Azana, fighting not only for the Socialist coalition but for the Republic, called on each of the opposition leaders personally to beg for a truce. In his peppery, nasal Andalusian voice Senor Barrios snapped...
...beg to call your attention to certain errors of fact in the biographical sketch of Beniamino Bufano included in your article entitled ''Pacific Progress...
...Carnegie Foundation's twenty-seventh annual report yesterday vigorously urged the state colleges and schools to enforce drastic economics to meet the demands of the times. In no uncertain terms it advocated widespread retrenchments all along the line. These recommendations, however, beg the question of the advisability of governmental economics in a depression, particularly when at the expense of education...
...clearly wrong. If more oil is produced, the price of this fluid all over the world will become cheaper, thus conferring universal benefit, and the more oil that flows the greater will be Persia's royalties. Since the deluded English wish to produce less oil, not more, I beg Your Majesty to cancel their concession and order your subjects to operate the wells, thus reducing unemployment among them...
...Some are adventurous runaways. Most have been squeezed out by family want. They despise professional hoboes. Pride keeps many away from welfare houses. A Michigan boy finished barber college after his parents died in 1929, found Michigan had loo many barbers already, took to the road. Too proud to beg, he made $3 carry him 2,000 mi. and eleven days. He explained: "I ate a lot of soup...