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...simple fact that he has not had time to investigate the matter and has been forced to leave it for solution in the future. Signs that the President is aware of what is happening and contemplates action soon are by no means lacking; perhaps Mr. Roosevelt will bestir himself and step on the liquor industry as thoroughly as he did on the aviation companies. God knows they need to be stepped on. NEMO...
Months ago Britain, though slow to bestir herself, started to fight Japan's dumping prices by denouncing the 28-year-old Indo-Japanese trade treaty and sharply upping India's tariffs on non-British cotton. British West Africa followed suit. Egypt, whose fat King Fuad is a British puppet, promptly swung into line with higher tariffs. Later even Dutch Queen Wilhelmina's newly named "Netherlands India" (once the Dutch East Indies) joined in building the white man's tariff dike against Japan's cheap textiles...
...President Hoover usually waits for a troublesome Congressional issue to come to the White House before acting on it. His friends in the House, however, told him that if he followed such a course on the Bonus he would be engulfed before he knew it. They urged him to bestir himself early and start beating back the Bonus tide before it reached its legislative flood. This the President decided to do last week when, in a sharp emphatic voice, he read to the Press: "Informal polls of the House have created apprehension in the country that a further bonus bill...
Adams has not fared so ill. Its original members were those who would not bestir themselves to move from their former quarters in Westmorly Court and Randolph Hall, and those who indicated the House as their second or third choice. The regulations of most Masters stand in the way of men who would shift their House allegiance; only a few Adams residents have made such requests; the majority are well content. And it has been well advertised: its doings have been chronicled in the press, its head has spoken in the Union--as have others, of course. After...
...flayed for inaction. This summer the President has been informed by his experts that, even if good times should return with an unexpected rush before snow flies, next winter will bring far more hunger, cold and want among the jobless than last. Therefore last week President Hoover began to bestir himself to see what could be done before winter comes...