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...from sin! By God's nails, Wolsey, if she were as religious as I she would 'a' seen it herself!'" Don Marquis makes the bawdy, likeable, blundering king whose amours changed the history of Europe, a human and understandable figure. And the style has the same joyous satirical fillip that made Mohitabel America's favorite gay lady...
...huge necessity of Federal aid, but also because it means another badly-needed demand on the capital-goods industries which will supply the materials and instruments for the public works. Despite all the efforts of the Administration this sector of business is still deep in the dumps; this particular fillip may not do the trick but at any rate it indicates that Washington has its ubiquitous eye on a vital spot...
...instant effect of his offer of a $3.85 bond conversion rate when the monetary exchange was above $4.85 was to stop the decline of the dollar and give it an upward fillip. Simultaneously the recent Wall Street boom, partly induced by a falling dollar, collapsed (see p. 45). On the theory that Chancellor Chamberlain's fiscal acumen is very great indeed, he was credited with a deliberate and successful move to start sterling downhill...
Rumors of the downfall of the Cabinet of General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, who wants to return to the gold standard as soon as possible, gave wild speculation another fillip. Both Judge Tielman Roos, who is trying to split the Hertzog Party, and Opposition Leader General Jan Christiaan Smuts, a personal friend of George V, were mentioned as the coming "Boom Premier...
Naturally, with the yen off gold, boundless State spending has already given Japan the fillip of an "inflation boom" (TIME, Jan. 2). When Japanese bankers mention the inevitable crash to Lieut.-General Araki, or indeed when any fiscal topic is broached to the War Minister, he says quietly, "That is not in my line...