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...foodstuffs. Only last week the Department of Agriculture made public a study confirming this fact. Of sugar, fruits, nuts and vegetables we import more than we export. We still export more grain, grain products, and animal products than we import, but the net exportation of animal products has fallen off 41% in 25 years or so, and grain and grain products have fallen off 22% in approximately the same period. On the other hand our sugar imports have increased 111% and imports of fruit, nuts and vegetables have increased 367% over what they were 25 years ago. We are fast...
This book on Villon is quite separate from Beebe's translation of the Frenchman's work, "The Great Testament", which is now listed for future publication by B. J. Brimmer. It is the third volume published by Beebe in recent years, his other works being "Fallen Stars," and "Corydon and Other Poems." A few copies are on sale at the Dunster House Book Shop...
...National Council for the Promotion of Race-Regeneration, commented upon statistics released last week which showed the birth rate in England to have slumped to 18.8 per 1,000-lowest since the War, lower than that in France. "Had birth rate among the feeble-minded and criminal classes fallen, we should all have rejoiced, but the facts behind the figures are that the birth rate is falling among our better classes and skilled workmen...
Such was the appalling measure which M. Briand, called for the eighth time to be Premier of France, deemed inescapable. The last Herriot Cabinet and two Painlevé Cabinets had fallen because those two leaders had been unable to make the Chamber stomach less bitter pills than that now offered it. All France gave ear, and crowds of fashionable Parisians swarmed in the gallery of the Chamber as M. Briand mounted the tribune...
...half millions of dollars from the German republic in addition to one of the former imperial castles. He has already lived seven years at Doorn not without luxury, amusing himself by growing a beard, and the general public by sawing wood for exercise. The fates who pursue fallen great men to the end seem to have lost their grip. This latest development makes him, by any economic standards, comfortably well off. There are not lacking hints that he will occupy the newly acquired castle in person; in which case, he will be able to entertain distinguished foreigners by the score...