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...great U. S. statesmen who does not feel his position altered by the shift in his country's political balance is Idaho's Senator Borah, the straddler magnificent. Always he has been just Republican enough to bear the name but always he has been poised on the crux of great issues, waiting until lesser men have spent their arguments, to impart his Olympian conclusions. His last great cry was for an Honest Dollar. Now that the dollar has moved Leftward to 60?, his cry is for collecting the War debts, a notion that Calvin Coolidge used to play...
...obviously just his anger in the crux of the matter when he says concerning the attempt to increase purchasing power; "Such an increase is obviously not a means of bringing about recovery; it is recovery itself. What we have to do is to consider the effectiveness of other means to this end." The discussion which follows though by no means exhaustive, makes a number of valuable distinctions and brings such neglected elements of the problem to the fore as the simple fact that not only wage earners but also farmers, dividend receivers, business managers, and so on are consumers, that...
...representing their respective Houses. If the University is to be consistent in its policy of giving to the Houses a certain measure of autonomy, it surely cannot persist in regarding what is purely a House team, chosen through intramural competition, as a University team. This is, in fact, the crux of the matter, and once University Hall confesses to this attitude the whole business can be left to the Houses where it properly belongs. Inasmuch as the House Masters have expressed their willingness to permit men on probation to play in the Yale game, the problem would then be settled...
...that's the crux of the present effort to increase purchasing power and stimulate economic recovery. Congress thought that by spending three billion dollars on public works, the employment problem would be solved but the Government cannot throw its money away on projects that are uneconomic or futile. Try as they do every day to find good ways of spending money, the Government officials have not yet authorized the expenditure of more than half of the public works program. And simply authorizing the spending does not mean that it will get money into circulation right away. For blue prints have...
...that invitation lies the crux of the whole matter. Unless Washington or Moscow (preferably both) cooperates with League States not only in words but in actions designed to make Japan mind the League, there is every likelihood that Manchuria will become a second Vilna...