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From these cryptic words, Fascist theorists last week deduced that on the day Italy declares war, Mussolini will begin state capitalism, take over all industrial, commercial, agricultural and transport activities. Both employers and workers will be paid fixed salaries in scrip or ration cards. The profits, estimated at 100 billion lire ($8,600,000,000) a year, will go to the Government. Not loans, not taxes, but business profits, will thus finance Italy's next...
Author Stribling writes so simply that he seems guileless. His own cryptic opinions are buried deep in the characters of his people. Only occasionally does he let his irony be seen: a cynical businessman defines the decision of a jury as "just an idle opinion expressed by twelve negligible onlookers"; when a bankrupt unsuccessfully pleads that the bank should not strip him to the buff, "the Colonel was amazed that anyone should compare the most conventional of American businesses with a gambling house...
...World War era. We can believe many things, but we cannot swallow this story. Carla passionately loves Rudi, who is in the intelligence department of Austria, and she pursues ugly pseudo-Gypsies so that she may give them important messages to take back to dear old Russia. She writes cryptic notes with invisible ink; she is always just about to cross the border; she sees the dirty fingernails of a Russian soldier with black circles on them and immediately recognizes the significance of the circles. Circles, circles, K 14, the sordidness of the filthy madness. Spies are doing their best...
...accept the chandeliers, which a sister House had refused, Eliot House has harbored a certain sense of inferiority. Witness the incident of a notice posted day before yesterday, announcing a lecture by Professor "Karl" Schumpeter. Around the name "Karl", some eagle-eyed resident drew a little circle, with the cryptic comment: "Huh?" A confident Dunster or a callous Lowell would not have minded, but at Eliot House they are sensitive about such things. The notice was taken down yesterday and a new one posted: "Professor Josef Schumpeter...
...terse, six-paragraph statement to strikers at his Edgewater, N. J. plant declaring that most of their demands had already been met and promising to raise wages as soon as conditions permitted. And he added this single cryptic sentence: "Recognition of collective bargaining through representatives of the workers' own choosing is already required by the present National Industrial Recovery...