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That period of defiant respite is now over. Antagonized by Nazidom, other nations have slashed their imports of German goods. Today what Germany sells no longer brings in enough to buy what she must purchase abroad to feed her people and her factories. There would be one way out if she could get fresh credit?but she has scuttled her credit. There would be another way out if she could export foreign exchange or gold?but the gold cover behind German marks has fallen to less than 2% or "scarcely till money'' in the Reichsbank, which is frantically short...
Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art proudly put on exhibition its latest acquisition?a huge steatopygous torso of a woman labeled COLOSSAL (see cut). Dwarfed visitors marveled at its 53-in. bust measurement, its triumphant pose, its defiant backflung elbows, the rhythmic convolutions of its tinted plaster surfaces. Gift of Edward M. M. Warburg, the torso was one more of the vasty works of Gaston Lachaise, whom many a critic rates among the top-notchers...
...stud to breakfast. Unspoilable Annie accepted her new fortune only as means to spread happiness among the poor, but Editor Patterson took an instant dislike to Daddy Warbucks. Who, he inquired, could get interested in a rich orphan? He ordered Daddy Warbucks banished. Harold Gray refused. To show this defiant upstart how unimportant his strip really was, Editor Patterson threw Daddy, Annie and all, out of one day's edition. First thing next morning the Tribune's telephone switchboard began flashing like an electric sign. By nightfall 600 readers had called to know where Annie was. Convinced, Editor...
...fiery little Austrian Chancellor of Germany joined the clamors of discontent that recently echoed round the world but his defiant utterings sounded a different note from those of the Reds he hates so vehemently. While millions of his countrymen listened to his fervent denunciation of the discrimination against Germany by the former allied powers, the Nazi leader declared that the day of "spineless submission...
There was an almost defiant smile on Coach Charley Whiteside's face yesterday as he watched the first two Varsity crews race down the half mile straight-away and finish in the choppy water neck and neck for a tie. Princeton and Navy showed themselves to be among the fastest crews on the mile and three quarter course in the country; but Charley is sure that his crew will be able to come in ahead of the Tigers on Lake Carnegie, May 5, if it registers the expected improvement in the next two weeks...