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...Great Britain just now? Certainly not honest Stanley Baldwin who. bungled the job when it was his and has more than a dim realization of that fact (TIME, Dec. 22). Mr. Baldwin and Mr. MacDonald are warm friends. They created the National Government on a friendly basis in dire emergency. Mr. Baldwin is English to the core. He loves fair play, he loves his pigs and his pipe (he bought a new cherry pipe last week, his only postelection exuberance). Also Mr. & Mrs. Baldwin fear God. They see all around them the workings of a Higher Power able to work...
Gloomily, bitterly, Chicago's 14,000-odd school teachers saw pass last week a sixth pay-day which brought them no money. Total now owed them in salaries since last April is $17,705,000. Many teachers are in dire penury. Some have taken city scrip, which is accepted at par by some merchants, discounted by others. Usurers loan money on the scrip, charge 31% a month interest...
Just To Remind You, In the theatre, last week was a dire week for the nation's infirmities. First there was Just To Remind You, a sturdy expose of the U. S. laundry racket. Then there was Ladies Of Creation, in which the interior decorating business was delicately satirized (see p. 54). After that came The Man On Stilts, which attempted to skewer the mild insanity which surrounds flagpole sitters, marathon dancers and the like...
...Modern society, acting through its government, owes the definite obligation to prevent the starvation or dire want of any of its fellow men and women who try to maintain themselves but cannot. . . . To these unfortunate citizens aid must be extended by government-not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty. . . . Private charity will prove inadequate to meet the added burden of the next few months. The responsibility rests upon the State. It is idle for us to speculate upon actions which may be taken by the Federal Government. ... It is true the Federal Government...
...Means Committee to collect money for the 1900 campaign. As a result of a quarrel before that election, he resigned and retired in disgust to the hamlet of Monte Ne, Ark. There in a modest little house, he became something of a hermit, puttering around among the hills, issuing dire predictions on the fate of the nation unless radical economic changes were made. A-summer resort he tried to start became an industrial college for Holy Rollers...