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...Persia must learn to do without foreigners!" is a favorite dictum of Shah Riza, himself a masterly adept at playing foreigners off against each other. Issuing banknotes used to be the profitable prerogative of the Imperial Bank of Persia, a prerogative well paid for by the bank's British backers. When they had been well squeezed, the Government founded the National Bank, with Germans in charge, and let them issue banknotes for a consideration. Belgians were next in favor and only this spring did the King of Kings give his Belgian Treasurer-General (in charge of customs) notice...
...basis. Too often in the past years has the game been confused with the trophy on the watch chain, or the letter on the chest. Now perhaps is the best time to come back to earth and realize that perhaps sport for its own sake is not an idle dictum...
...them more than slightly insane. On no other hypothesis can one contemplate the present without an unpleasant intellectual vertigo. As foreign office vies with foreign office in the publication of phantasmal solemnities which become increasingly void and without rational substance, one recalls with cheerful malice the Aristotelian dictum that "Man is a rational animal." In a wholly objective mood one is tempted to congratulate the rest of the animal kingdom on its fortunate escape...
...walkout of the National Students League planned for that time will go on as arranged without the interference of the authorities according to Dean Hanford. "I see no reason why the University should in any way alter the regular curriculum because of the strike," was the official dictum...
...small scientific worth. That would be a specious inference. The refusal of the department to have anything to do with the affair is the explicable refusal of professionals who do not care to risk their reputations on an issue which they did not themselves open and define. The obiter dictum that the questionnaire is incompetent and unscientific may, from their point of view, be necessary in explanation; but it certainly leaves them open to attack on the grounds either that they did not recognize the value of some such inquiry, or that if they did recognize that value they were...