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...TIME, Feb. 9, one reads: "All the U. S. people apologized." I beg leave to differ. If the question of apology had been left to the American people, not two percent of them would have voted for it. Would we have apologized, under identical circumstances, to the president of Liberia? Should the president of Nicaragua be miffed at some careless statement of an army officer, would we get down on our knees and pray for his pardon? Can you imagine this country debasing itself just because some petty potentate of some little two-by-four country was peeved...
...Lowell House bells differ from ordinary carillons in that they do not conform to any modern musical scale. Tuned to unaccepted pitches, they cannot, strictly speaking, be called a carillon. Experts describe them as "a group of bells". When such chimes are rung, the deep bass bell is kept constantly pealing while the ringer manipulates levers and pulls ropes to ring the remaining bells. This is the work of Adrianoff, of Astoria, Long Island, an American citizen living in this country for 20 years, who will take up his abode in Cambridge...
Neither specific nor satisfactory, the Daily Herald's story was nevertheless a bold first attempt to plumb the mystery of what Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England and Governor George Leslie Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York did differ about last November. Mr. Norman had joined Mr. Harrison on the S. S. Bremen at Southampton, seemingly to accompany him to New York. But when the Bremen reached Cherbourg the Governor of the Bank of England got off with his valet and his bags, rushed back to London, has not since been to Manhattan (TIME...
...abrupt decline in silver has accompanied the drop in other metals, but this is due more to developments in the currency situation. Last week Irving Trust Co. blamed Great Britain for the drop in silver, saying it was caused by putting India on a gold standard. Causes? Great economists differ on the question of whether the World Depression was caused by the crash of U. S. stockmarkets, or whether the latter merely foresaw the business trend.* Similarly, an endless debate goes on concerning the problem of whether Over-Production was a cause of the Depression or has been merely accentuated...
Dear TIME, nevertheless-though one now and then is moved to differ with your estimates made or implied-you are great reading. . . . One would not be without you, for so a little one way up in the top of a sycamore tree can see the world...