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...Washington Secretary Frederick J. Libby of the National Council for Prevention of War broadcast this dire prediction: "We shall build naval vessels and airplanes madly on a fictitious war scare which the munitions makers are trumping up. . . . Our shipbuilders, airplane manufacturers and munitions makers are already launching their publicity to reap a rich harvest from the breakdown of the London Naval conversations...
...Japan with a 750,000,000 yen deficit. Three days later Mr. Fujii abruptly resigned "suffering from a nervous and physical breakdown," according to his doctors, who said they were injecting him with camphor oil. Grimly the fighting services prepared to jam their budget through the Diet anyhow, circulated dire threats of what will happen to deputies who oppose them...
...young lad, Tom Keene, and his pretty wife, Karen Morley, finding themselves in dire economic straits, take advantage of an opportunity to go "back to the farm." Gathering about them a group of unemployed families, of the kind that is so pitifully a victim of the world chaos today, the pair set up a simplified self-subsisting community. It is strange that, in an attempt to portray the inevitable nobility of this American stock of which we are so proud, the producers saw fit to launch their actors on a communistic experiment of the most extreme kind. Getting away from...
Warning of dire consequences soon to follow "if reform continues to precede recovery", Wallace B. Donham '98, dean of the Business School, predicted increased unemployment and business stagnation in the next twelve months if industrial managers are not at once encouraged. The dean spoke to the Advertising Club of Boston in conjunction with the Conference on Distribution at the Hotel Statler...
With the recent resignation of Budget Administrator Douglas the public is reminded of the dire prophesies of Professor Sprague and the anxiety felt by businessmen everywhere, especially in New England, when the Harvard professor resigned last year. Now, as then, the businessmen are having qualms about the soundness of the government's monetary policy...