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...Chamberlain and Daladier conducted themselves as dignified men of reason and intelligent representatives of nations prepared to fight to their utmost ability if necessary. Lesser men would have been tempted to again snare conceited, sentimental, weak-minded Uncle Sam under the claptrap against dictators and antireligion...
...success of the conference seems to have been due to the fact that Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler and Mussolini were all fundamentally honest and each willing to understand, contemplate and sympathize with the problems of the nations represented by the others...
...trying out may take the negative or affirmative side of one of three subjects: Resolved, That Neville Chamberlain has brought 'peace with honor' for our time; or That this House favors the adoption of the Government Reorganization Bill of President Roosevelt; or That Republicanism, not the New Deal, represents true Liberalism...
...Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, author of a popularly gruesome tract on reckless driving ("-And Sudden Death"), has collected tips for the benefit of heavy smokers who wish to reform. In step with a recent upsurge of articles on smoking, in the current issue of Scribner's, Mr. Furnas offers several anti-smoking aids for what they are worth. Samples: 1) wash out the mouth with a weak solution of silver nitrate which "makes a smoke taste as if it had been cured in sour milk"; 2) chew candied ginger, gentian, or camomile; 3) to occupy the hands smoke a prop...
BONG! went the New York Stock Exchange 10 o'clock opening bell one day last week. What looked like the worst break of the year promptly began. By radio and ticker came the gloomy words of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain before the House of Commons. To the market they brought a tide of liquidation. Prices cracked as much as three points, blocks as big as 6,000 shares were dumped. At 10:28, came the word that Hitler had agreed to a four-power conference. The tide turned. During the next hour buying orders for 700,000 shares jammed...