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...that foreign trade consists exclusively of foreigners selling goods here and taking our money away, as its cartoons show us, in bales. . . . Have these gentlemen 'any suggestions as to how foreigners shall pay for the goods they buy from us?" That, most responsible economists agree, is the biggest flaw in "Buy American." Even last year the U. S. exported about $1,500,000,000 of farm, factory, mine and forest products. Foreign countries must sell to the U. S. goods or services of an equal value or pay in gold. And foreigners have already paid so much gold that...
Ever since the dawn of the family institution, the designation "perfect marriage" has constituted a challenge for cynics, and in these later years, for psychoanalysis to search out and expose to general derision some herrid flaw, some suppressed hate or combat concealed by any couple known to boast of "never having a quarrel." At the Plymouth Theatre, this week, Arthur Goodrich, in his latest play, "The Perfect Marriage" has presented a happy and, we believe, truthful interpretation of this phenomenon. The lesson being that while there are, of necessity sacrifices by both the man and woman, the balance of satisfaction...
...glancing through the window of a dingy old house glimpsed the perfection of a marvelous orchid. Because Professor Goodale was interested in botany he looked again and longer, and to his amazement found that the orchid was glass, so finely wrought that the most minute inspection revealed no flaw. It was then and there that the famous Harvard collection of glass flowers began...
...change sounds like a cry for the life preserver." Senator Carter Glass, red with rage, called the proposal "a gambler's trick," such a nomination "damaged goods." "The whole enterprise smacks of poor sportsmanship," declared James Middleton Cox. Newton Diehl Baker said such a nominee would have "a moral flaw to his title...
...United States, those twin devils, absinthe and obscenity, have raised problems, and they have been solved: Capone had an organization; Congress has an organization; even the Watch and Ward has an organization, but Harvard lags behind. Western Universities, with avid maliciousness, watching and waiting, have at last located the flaw in Eastern culture, and have published their discovery. Harvard has received the first attack...