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...much the better for the Government measure, which has not yet even come up for consideration. At the same time it is quite evident that the Government scheme may be reduced to a jumble of absurdities by the same process. With a heavy heart M. Doumer pronounced a sour dictum upon last week's performance of Les Folies Bourbon: It would seem that in this Chamber a majority can always be found to kill any proposal whatever...
...dividend of 50c a share on the $508,302,500 common stock outstanding. This was in addition to the regular dividends of $1.25 a share of the junior issue and of $1.75 a share of the preferred. Thus 80-year-old Chairman Elbert Henry Gary's frequently repeated dictum that U. S. Steel common was a "7% stock" was reaffirmed. He remains as Chairman of the Board. Recently U. S. Steel has been climbing on the stock market because of rumors that a melon would...
...satisfied with the powers of a dictator in Italy, he has extended the tentacles of Fascismo into other countries. His dictum that 'once an Italian always an Italian to the seventh generation,' prohibits Italian immigrants to the United States becoming naturalized. They must remain Italian citizens to Fascismo. If they enter any organization having for its purpose opposition to Fascismo their property in Italy will be confiscated...
...eventual elevation to the heights of serene contemplation. To this end is the "Great Creed of Inaction", and Mr. Farrar's ideal lies in the other direction. "The truly wise man ignores reputation; the perfect man ignores self; the divine man ignores action." This is but the dictum of Chuang Tizu, the greatest of Taoist philosophers, and Taoism does not exert any very remarkable influence in this country; it can be no more than a suggestion. But even a suggestion that there is more than mere laziness in the American inertia is not to be lightly cast aside...
...Minneapolis (Minn.) Tribune: "It is generally agreed that if or when college football becomes sharply tinctured with professionalism, its doom as in inter-campus sport will have been heralded. . . . The accepted dictum, therefore, is that college football should not be professionalized, directly or indirectly, and that it should not be commercialized...