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...have been witness of grave defects and abuses in the capitalist system," continued the Speech from the Throne. "New conditions prevail. These require modifications in the capitalist system to enable that system more effectively to serve the people. Reform measures will therefore be submitted to you as part of a comprehensive plan designed to remedy the social and economic injustices now prevailing, and to ensure to all classes and to all parts of the country a greater degree of equality in the distribution of the benefits of the capitalist system. Upon this plan you have made a beginning...
...mess either way. They say that if it decides against the government, the Court will be packed by adding to the number of justices. If it decides in favor, it is said that they will be thought to be mere "Yes-men." At any rate, the capitalist reader had better be careful about his securities for a while...
...packed up to leave last week, he found a crinkled prediction penned to him in high excitement four years ago by fox-bearded Montagu Collet Norman who is now in his 15th year as Governor of the Bank of England. "Unless drastic measures are taken to save it, the capitalist system throughout the civilized world will be wrecked within a year," wrote Governor Norman to Governor Moret in 1931. "I should like this prediction to be filed for future reference...
Once the Revolution burst, the new Government promptly seized $20,000,000 of Equitable assets in Russia by outright confiscation. Then one day to Ivan Ivanovich went a Bolshevik agent with further blandishments. "Comrade, your policy was of course nullified in Russia along with other capitalist contracts by a Soviet decree. You might be able to collect from the company in America. Of course as a Soviet citizen you cannot leave Russia. In these circumstances, if you will sign this paper, our Government will sue for you in New York, charging a commission of 60%,"Ivan Ivanovich grumbled but signed...
Died. John Emory Andrus, 93, multi-millionaire capitalist; of pneumonia; in Yonkers...