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...accorded to me by this country. I accept it as proof of their loyalty and devotion to the Crown." ¶ Announced negotiations had been be gun with the U. S. for completion of the St. Lawrence waterway. ¶ Determined "to maintain a policy of rigid economy, consistent with the dis charge of those . . . obligations, which is essential to preservation of the integrity and credit of the Dominion." ¶ soundness" Rejoiced of over Canada's the finances. "fundamental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: From the Throne | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

England's dole is a medicine for the dis ease of unemployment. Last week Eng land learned that the dole brought its own disease. To many a workman, suddenly jobless, mental deterioration comes swiftly. For a few days he enjoys his leisure. Then comes restlessness. He walks the streets, goes home to pace his floor, bite his nails, throw things at his wife. Gradually this energy wears itself out. He stops shaving, becomes dirty, slovenly, sodden. He looks at the world out of dull, defeated eyes. For this con dition psychologists have a new term : un employment shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Seed for the Sodden | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...Floyd Bostwick Odium, president of Atlas Utilities Corp., leisurely thieves took four prized paintings, frames and all. Among them: a Gainsborough, a Watteau, a portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, a landscape by Richard Wilson, valued to gether at about $50,000. Detectives ar rested a butler and cook recently dis charged by the Odiums, recovered the paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 25, 1932 | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...boast that he will be German Chancellor before long. "There is only one harmless," way of grimly rendering observed the Paris' semi Hitlerites official Journal des Débats, "and that is to face them with force. . . . We are going to have to do with a Germany more dis quieting for Europe than the Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: We Are Not Carthage! | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...contribution: $616.44. Meanwhile protests began to appear against the method of relief fund collection among the Government's 75,000 departmental workers. Collectors had the payrolls and each employe was supposed to subscribe three days' wages. If he did not, he feared he would incur official dis favor, perhaps lose his job. Senator Couzens of Michigan threatened an investigation to see if Federal workers were being "dragooned and intimidated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Red Scare | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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