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...such a statement would be a long-range prediction. It does not encompass the immediate future. It does not satisfy the business man who is planning for the next three months or even for a year. The cardinal fact about business is money. It is usually called capital. But there is another cardinal fact--how the volume of business done shall yield a profit...
...might be happening at the very moment the funds of some luckless individuals were being sent out of the country. Indeed, the export of capital in times like these is a form of speculation, which has in it all the dangers that any speculation of chance-taking transaction may encompass...
...surging is all about; it thrusts itself upon our presence with persistency that will not be denied. The Vagabond has sickened of depressions, business cycles, nations in ashes, and economic theories. His frail mind can not encompass the full significance of one event before another is cried aloud in the market place to obliterate the memory of the first. He has, therefore, resorted to an old dodge, one frowned upon by psychologists and sociologists. He has taken unto himself comfort and refuge in romantic escape. He has harkened to the men who tell "tales of little meaning, though the words...
...Primer resembles New Russia's Primer (TIME, May 4). But the Russia book was written especially for native schoolchildren. America's Primer is a phrase book for those discontented, restless, loosely anchored, ever-thinking, rarely-doing citizens of the larger U. S. communities who grope for but seldom encompass Reform. They are the folks who discuss what Colyumist Heywood Broun writes, who when abnormally excited vote for Socialist Norman Thomas, both good friends of Author Ernst...
...long as Great Britain was in a state of war or quasi-war with the Bolshevik Republic I did my utmost to encompass their downfall. . . . But from the moment when they were recognized by His Majesty's Government I was precluded by the laws of my country and by my duty to the them." Crown from all hostile action against The period of Mr. Churchill's "hostile action" would thus be from the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1917 up to its recognition by the first MacDonald Government in 1924. But it might also include the period...