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...flaw in the picture-as Neville Chamberlain might perhaps explain-is that appeasement is apt not to work. To sacrifice China might well prove no more fruitful than was the sacrifice of Czechoslovakia, and when the U. S. had its Fleet in the Atlantic Japan might, like Hitler, forget her pledges...
Brooding in California on this rosy picture, Odlum saw a flaw in it. Practically all Atlas' profits had been made on a maximum of $25,000,000 of its capital invested in "special situations" such as the ill-starred Utilities Power & Light system which Bondholder Odlum is now liquidating into its component operating companies. The balance of Atlas' capital has always been "invested" in the market as a whole, has done no better than any other "general portfolio" investment trust...
...catch him in Bathroom No. 3. A request for 584 will connect the caller with the Southwest Bedroom; 592 with the Furnace Room; 597 with the Maid's Quarters, and 590 with both ends of the Dining-Room Table. Despite this room-to-room hookup, there is a flaw in the service. If Mr. Moore were in his Den (589) and a friend called him in the Front Upper Hall (593), he would likely as not fail to hear the phone ring, miss the call. From this intense coverage the Moore system is an average $18 a month richer...
...flaw in Lawyer Satterlee's case seems to be his statement that 'Pierpont . . . did not lend any money on [a] second shipment of carbines.' Lewis Corey, in The House of Morgan (1930) quotes the Reports of the House of Representatives to show that Morgan filed a bill with the Government for 58,175 for a second batch of carbines, a claim on which an investigating committee later allowed him $11,008." Mr. Corey misled your reviewer. Morgan never filed any bill with anyone, or made any claim against the Government. No committee, commission or court ever said...
...Astoria as examples of everlasting amity. The U. S. openly gave China commercial credits, declared a moral embargo on certain war materials to Japan, and, last July 26, gave notice of abrogation of the 1911 treaty, effective six months later. But Japanese diplomats could see no flaw in an ancient friendship...