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...amount three times as great as the Dawes loan? If in their present needy condition they are willing to do this, they show a loyalty to rank and property strangely incongruous in a socialist republic. Capitalists who dread Socialism will then sigh with relief to find their worst bugbear so completely discounted in Germany. And political students who question the strength of Republican sentiment in Germany will have their doubts settled by the greatest popular referendum since Napoleon III staged his coup d'etat...
...bugbear of the oil industries has been the large stocks of both crude oil and gasoline on hand. Yet some months ago, as soon as the excessive preceding production had begun to slow up, prices for both crude and gasoline were rapidly jacked up. The oil men in adopting this policy were obviously trusting that production would remain steady or decline further, while consumption would be record-breaking...
...needed in this case to furnish the gilt frame for the picture, and they do their work naturally and unobtrusively. The stage manager is to be congratulated on his good sense in not trying to force "atmosphere" in the shape of a doubtful gondola or some such operatic bugbear, but in allowing the picturesque serenade group alone to set the proper mood...
...bugbear of the U. S. Senate irreconcilables, the red herring with which they tripped President Wilson, was again offered for sacrifice on the horns of the altar by the Canadian representative at the League Council Assembly as a move to bring America into the League. A majority of member nations, led by France, preferred to keep Article...
...declared that the Court should be entered because of its importance as an agency for peace, and that its only connection with the League was that the League offered a practical means of electing judges. " One political bugbear " he admitted and discussed: that the British Empire has six votes in the Assembly of the League, which is one of the two bodies that elect the judges. He pointed out that Great Britain has, however, only one vote in the League Council which acts concurrently in the election of judges. This, and the fact that no nation may have more than...