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Balance comes from two Latin words "bis" (twice) and "lan" (plate or scale). Webster's Dictionary defines balance as the "state of equipoise between the weights in opposing scales . . equilibrium, steadiness, stability." How far we have gotten away from equilibrium, steadiness, and stability in governmental fiscal policy is abundantly and graphically indicated by the above figures. The phrase that a thing is of no more importance "than zeros on the war debt" might well be amended to "on the treasury deficit...
...state was dis continued, church property confiscated, religious orders expelled from Germany. Many a priest and bishop who defied these laws was fined and jailed. Net effect was to embitter Germany's Catholic population, increase the strength of the Catholic Centre Party and finally to force Bis marck to back down. Though Germany's Protestant population is double its 20.000.000 Catholics, Adolf Hitler has shown no signs of personally attempting another Kulturkampj. Baptized a Catholic but no longer a practicing one, he has a good Catholic Vice Chancellor in Franz von Papen, whom he sent to Rome...
...Branahan, the alley tough who could make a dishonest living if he could ever bring himself to run away from the police. After he has gone to jail for putting two good cops in the hospital, his mistress Aggie, with a celerity only possible in the cinema, meets bis opposite, a precious, rich, bespectacled country boy (Charles Farrell). By throwing away his spectacles, telling him to talk out of the corner of his mouth, giving him the Irish name of her jailed lover, she turns the country poltroon into a man-eater and a construction gang boss, then falls...
...Germany Italy, Japan and a U. S. group headed by J.P. Morgan & Co. is draped in grey, the color of money bags. On this grey table lay fresh and crisp last week the second annual report of BIZ or Bank für Internationalen Zahlungsausgleich, famed in English as BIS (Bank for International Settlements), in French as Bri (Banque des Reglements International-). When he stood up to report, Manhattan Banker Gates W. McGarrah, President of BIZ was seen to have eased his substantial midriff by undoing as usual the two bottom buttons of his vest. What President McGarrah...
...Consult Professor Whittem 28 Wed. 4-6 Sever 2 GEOLOGY 12 Consult Professor Bryan 18 Wed. at 8 a.m. Rotch 108 GERMAN 10 Thurs. 3-5 Widener C 20b Wed. 3-5 Sever 6 GOVERNMENT 2 Consult Professor Holcombe HISTORY C Consult Mr. Chase--History. Consult Professor Whitney--Bis. and Lit. 14 Wed. at 11 Harvard 2 18 Wed. at 11 Sever 25 29 Consult Professor C. K. Webster 32 Consult Professor Ferguson 42 Thurs. 7.30 p.m. Widener J 44 Consult Professor C. K. Webster LATIN B Consult Professor Rand MATHEMATICS A Students wishing to enroll...